[GIT PULL] Audit patches for 4.4

[GIT PULL] Audit patches for 4.4

[Paul Moore]

Hi Linus,

Seven audit patches for 4.4, but really only one of any significant value, the 
remainder are trivial cleanups that are described well enough in the patch 
descriptions.  The one significant patch is an attempt to make communication 
between the kernel's audit subsystem and the userspace audit daemon a bit more 
robust by retrying on certain transient error conditions.  All in all, it's a 
pretty small set of patches this time around with just fixes and cleanups, 
please pull for 4.4.

Thanks,
-Paul

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The following changes since commit 6a13feb9c82803e2b815eca72fa7a9f5561d7861:

  Linux 4.3 (2015-11-01 16:05:25 -0800)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit upstream

for you to fetch changes up to 233a68667cf4c134d07ef7e22bdd77786b5c7360:

  audit: make audit_log_common_recv_msg() a void function
        (2015-11-04 08:23:52 -0500)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Paul Moore (1):
      audit: make audit_log_common_recv_msg() a void function

Richard Guy Briggs (1):
      audit: try harder to send to auditd upon netlink failure

Saurabh Sengar (1):
      audit: removing unused variable

Scott Matheina (1):
      audit: fix comment block whitespace

Yaowei Bai (3):
      audit: audit_dummy_context can be boolean
      audit: audit_string_contains_control can be boolean
      audit: audit_tree_match can be boolean

 include/linux/audit.h |  8 ++++----
 kernel/audit.c        | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 kernel/audit.h        |  2 +-
 kernel/audit_tree.c   |  6 +++---
 kernel/auditfilter.c  | 14 +++++++-------
 5 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

-- 
paul moore
security @ redhat

Re: [GIT PULL] Audit patches for 4.4

[Paul Moore]

On Wednesday, November 04, 2015 08:34:12 AM Paul Moore wrote:
> Hi Linus,
> 
> Seven audit patches for 4.4, but really only one of any significant value,
> the remainder are trivial cleanups that are described well enough in the
> patch descriptions.  The one significant patch is an attempt to make
> communication between the kernel's audit subsystem and the userspace audit
> daemon a bit more robust by retrying on certain transient error conditions.
>  All in all, it's a pretty small set of patches this time around with just
> fixes and cleanups, please pull for 4.4.

Just a FYI for the linux-audit folks - I rebased the audit#upstream on v4.3 
for this pull request, you'll see this trickle down to audit#next once the 
merge window closes and I rotate the branches.  Sorry for any problems this 
may cause.

-- 
paul moore
security @ redhat