Re: [PATCH 5/5] audit: change the type of oldloginuid from kuid_t to unsigned long

[Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>]

On 11/02/2013 01:00 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 07:34:46PM +0800, Gao feng wrote:
>> The type of oldloginuid should be unsigned long.
> 
> Can you say why unsigned long rather than int returned from
> audit_get_sessionid() or unsigned int expected by
> audit_log_set_loginuid()?

Oh..it's my miss, it definitely should be unsigned int.
I will resend this one separately.

Thanks!
> 
> Kees: For that matter, why does audit_get_sessionid() return int rather
> than unsigned int from task_struct?  That was introduced in commit
> 9321d526.
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> ---
>>  kernel/auditsc.c | 3 ++-
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
>> index ceb396f..9f871ad 100644
>> --- a/kernel/auditsc.c
>> +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
>> @@ -2018,7 +2018,8 @@ int audit_set_loginuid(kuid_t loginuid)
>>  {
>>  	struct task_struct *task = current;
>>  	unsigned int sessionid = -1;
>> -	kuid_t oldloginuid, oldsessionid;
>> +	kuid_t oldloginuid;
>> +	unsigned long oldsessionid;
>>  	int rc;
>>  
>>  	oldloginuid = audit_get_loginuid(current);
>> -- 
>> 1.8.3.1
> 
> - RGB
> 
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