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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>,
	linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	eparis@parisplace.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] audit: convert status version to a feature bitmap
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:51:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2673987.auILhPtmMS@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141114010852.GB5960@madcap2.tricolour.ca>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-14  2:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-13 20:29 [PATCH] audit: convert status version to a feature bitmap Richard Guy Briggs
2014-11-13 20:38 ` Joe Perches
2014-11-13 22:00   ` Paul Moore
2014-11-14  1:01   ` Richard Guy Briggs
2014-11-13 22:12 ` Paul Moore
2014-11-14  1:08   ` Richard Guy Briggs
2014-11-14  2:51     ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2014-11-15  3:32       ` Richard Guy Briggs
2014-11-17 16:09         ` Paul Moore
2014-11-14 13:32     ` Paul Moore
     [not found] <12539378.gxbYIULgU3@sifl>
2014-11-17 20:51 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2014-11-17 21:59   ` Paul Moore

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