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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: audit 1.2.7 released
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:19:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609201519.47804.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1158779559.15340.145.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil>

On Wednesday 20 September 2006 15:12, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> SELinux userland code isn't supposed to assume any fixed max.
> libselinux does use an initial buffer size as a starting point when
> calling e.g. getxattr, but will resize the buffer to a larger size if
> necessary.

I try very hard to not have any memory allocations in the audit system to 
prevent and possible failure due to fragmentation or leaks. I need to cap the 
buffer size at something to meet this design goal.

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-20 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-19  0:13 audit 1.2.7 released Steve Grubb
2006-09-19 21:05 ` Amy Griffis
2006-09-19 22:18   ` Steve Grubb
2006-09-20 19:12   ` Stephen Smalley
2006-09-20 19:19     ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2006-09-20 19:26       ` Paul Moore
2006-09-20 19:40         ` Steve Grubb
2006-09-21 19:43           ` Karl MacMillan

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