From: LC Bruzenak <lenny@magitekltd.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixed reason field in audit signal logging
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 08:52:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <527BA925.9030305@magitekltd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1383835404.2938.38.camel@localhost>
On 11/07/2013 08:43 AM, Eric Paris wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 19:09 +0530, Paul Davies C wrote:
>> The audit system logs the signals that leads to abnormal end of a process.
>> However , as of now , it always states the reason for failure of a process as
>> "memory violation" regardless of the signal delivered. This is due to the
>> audit_core_dumps() function pass the reason for failure blindly to the
>> audit_log_abend() as "memory violation".
>>
>> This patch changes the audit_core_dumps() function as to pass on the right
>> reason to the audit_log_abend based on the signal received.
>>
>> Signed-off-by:Paul Davies C
> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
>
> But we really should wait for an Ack and thoughts from steve grubb....
>
FWIW I really like this fix. It will be valuable to me (once I get it in
my RHEL-6.2 systems); thanks!
LCB
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LC (Lenny) Bruzenak
lenny@magitekltd.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-07 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-07 13:39 [PATCH] Fixed reason field in audit signal logging Paul Davies C
2013-11-07 14:43 ` Eric Paris
2013-11-07 14:52 ` LC Bruzenak [this message]
2013-11-07 15:05 ` Steve Grubb
2013-11-07 15:13 ` LC Bruzenak
2013-11-07 15:42 ` Eric Paris
2013-11-07 15:51 ` Paul Davies C
2013-11-07 15:53 ` Eric Paris
2013-11-07 16:00 ` Paul Davies C
2013-11-07 16:05 ` Eric Paris
2013-11-07 16:11 ` Steve Grubb
2013-11-07 18:07 ` Steve Grubb
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