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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-audit@redhat.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Audit fixes for 3.19 #2
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 00:01:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150101000149.GP22149@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3787508.5gHb8qD3XR@sifl>

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 05:08:12PM -0500, Paul Moore wrote:

> The getname/putname hacks work in the normal file case, but it falls apart 
> when you start talking about AF_UNIX socket files where the filename string 
> doesn't go through the getname/putname refcount tricks.  In the past (no idea 
> how far back this goes off the top of my head) this wasn't an issue since the 
> code which recorded the filenames in the audit records was broken, but since 
> we just "fixed" that problem, the AF_UNIX socket problem is now making an 
> appearance.
> 
> At least that is how it looks to me right now, if I'm wrong about this and I'm 
> missing an obvious fix I'm all ears/eyes/etc.

Umm...  How about just adding a function that would be used instead of
all those
        struct filename filename = { .name = name };
and created an object that would be destroyed later by putname()?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-01  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-31 20:33 [GIT PULL] Audit fixes for 3.19 #2 Paul Moore
2014-12-31 21:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-12-31 22:08   ` Paul Moore
2014-12-31 22:54     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-01-01 18:18       ` Paul Moore
2015-01-01  0:01     ` Al Viro [this message]
2015-01-01 18:22       ` Paul Moore
2015-01-01 18:41       ` Al Viro

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