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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Possible bug while setting syscall="all"
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:05:57 -0400
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On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 6:35:28 PM EDT Nathan Brown wrote:
> I am trying to fully understand the ruledata struct. I've got most of it
> figured out but I can't find a reason for the final 32 bits (last index) of
> mask to not be flipped on when selecting all syscalls. In general it
> appears that the final 32 bits are never used.
> 
> https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/blob/f588248775b4f8180b846bbc
> 1681bc54e07871ed/lib/libaudit.c#L907

Yes, this is a bug. Since there are nowhere near 2016 syscalls on any arch, it 
hadn't really posed a problem. Fixed in svn commit 1397. Thanks for reporting 
this.

-Steve