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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 1/2] audit: document /proc/PID/loginuid
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 9:48 AM Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> wrote:
> Em Thu, 18 Mar 2021 15:19:10 -0400
> Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> escreveu:
> > Describe the /proc/PID/loginuid interface in Documentation/ABI/stable that
> > was added 2005-02-01 by commit 1e2d1492e178 ("[PATCH] audit: handle
> > loginuid through proc")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid | 15 +++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid b/Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..e7c100b9ab18
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid
> > @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
> > +What: Audit Login UID
> > +Date: 2005-02-01
> > +KernelVersion: 2.6.11-rc2 1e2d1492e178 ("[PATCH] audit: handle loginuid through proc")
> > +Contact: linux-audit@redhat.com
> > +Format: %u
>
> The ABI definition doesn't include a "Format:" symbol. See:
>
> Documentation/ABI/README
>
> For the valid ones.
>
> This change causes a warning at the ABI parser:
>
>
> $ ./scripts/get_abi.pl validate
> Warning: file Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid#5:
> tag 'contact' is invalid. Line
> Format: %u
> Warning: file Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid#21:
> tag 'contact' is invalid. Line
> Format: %u
>
> You should either drop it or add it to the parser and to the README
> file, if the ABI maintainers are ok with such new field.

Thanks Mauro, I didn't realize there were tools that parsed these files.

Richard, please post a patch that drops the 'Format:' line from the
newly added audit files as soon as possible so I can merge it into
audit/next.

--
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com

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