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From: Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>
To: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] audit: Fix possible return value truncation in audit_get_context()
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:19:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090401211941.GA19309@shell.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090401194727.9583.7857.stgit@flek.lan>

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 03:47:27PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> The audit subsystem treats syscall return codes as type long, unfortunately
> the audit_get_context() function mistakenly converts the return code to an
> int type in the parameters which could cause problems on systems where the
> sizeof(int) != sizeof(long).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>

Applied.  E.g. for mmap() it's actually easy to trigger on 64bit boxen.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-04-01 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-01 19:47 [RFC PATCH] audit: Fix possible return value truncation in audit_get_context() Paul Moore
2009-04-01 21:19 ` Alexander Viro [this message]

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