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From: Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch filter lists with < or > should not be accepted
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:46:22 -0400
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On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 05:46:21PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> Currently the kernel audit system represents arch's as numbers and will
> gladly accept comparisons between archs using >, <, >=, <= when the only
> thing that makes sense is = or !=.  I'm told that the next revision of
> auditctl will do this checking but this will provide enforcement in the
> kernel even for old userspace.  A simple command to show the issue would
> be to run
> 
> auditctl -d entry,always -F arch>i686 -S chmod
> 
> with this patch the kernel will reject this with -EINVAL
> 
> Please comment/ack/nak as soon as possible.

ACK