linux-audit.redhat.com archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] lost_reset: return value rather than sequence number when zero
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:16:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1850273.jPBnK7MvUs@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1511395257-6321-3-git-send-email-rgb@redhat.com>

On Wednesday, November 22, 2017 7:00:57 PM EST Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> The kernel always returns negative values on error, so zero and anything
> positive is valid success.  Lost_reset returned a positive value at the
> time of reset, including zero that got interpreted as success and
> replaced with the packet sequence number "2".
> 
> Rename audit_send() to __audit_send() and pass the sequence number back
> via a parameter rather than return value.
> 
> Have a new stub audit_send() call __audit_send() and mimic the previous
> behaviour of audit_send()

Applied,

Thanks,
-Steve

      reply	other threads:[~2017-11-27 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-23  0:00 [PATCH 0/2] lost_reset: alt fix restoring designed behaviour Richard Guy Briggs
2017-11-23  0:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] Revert "In auditctl, when resetting lost request status output afterwards" Richard Guy Briggs
2017-11-27 22:16   ` Steve Grubb
2017-11-27 22:41     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2017-11-27 23:06       ` Steve Grubb
2017-11-23  0:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] lost_reset: return value rather than sequence number when zero Richard Guy Briggs
2017-11-27 22:16   ` Steve Grubb [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1850273.jPBnK7MvUs@x2 \
    --to=sgrubb@redhat.com \
    --cc=linux-audit@redhat.com \
    --cc=rgb@redhat.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).