From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Grubb Subject: Re: [PATCH] audit: convert status version to a feature bitmap Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:51:36 -0500 Message-ID: <2673987.auILhPtmMS@x2> References: <1745832.tbkjBzSGxr@sifl> <20141114010852.GB5960@madcap2.tricolour.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20141114010852.GB5960@madcap2.tricolour.ca> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Richard Guy Briggs Cc: Paul Moore , linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eparis@parisplace.org List-Id: linux-audit@redhat.com On Thursday, November 13, 2014 08:08:52 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > So what terrible things happen to userspace if > > AUDIT_VERSION_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME becomes 0x03 instead of 0x02? > > But it won't. It gets the value of > AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME, which is 0x00000002. > > I think you meant to ask about AUDIT_VERSION_LATEST, which would become 3. > > You *did* already ask that question in a previous thread, and there > didn't seem to be a concern. Steve Grubb could likely answer this > question better than me. The audit 2.4.1 package has been pushed to everything from F20 -> rawhide. If you don't see any problems, then its safe. But check carefully around the things that you did change. Right now, we only are caring about only one kernel feature, --loginuid-immutable. Check that it still works, auditctl -s. -Steve