Re: [PATCH V5] audit: use macros for unset inode and device values

[Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>]

On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 04:19:09 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> Clean up a number of places were casted magic numbers are used to represent
> unset inode and device numbers in preparation for the audit by executable
> path patch set.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
> ---
> v5: Move macros from include/uapi/linux/audit.h to include/linux/audit.h
>     Use "unsigned int" rather than bare "unsigned".
> 
>  include/linux/audit.h |    3 +++
>  kernel/audit.c        |    2 +-
>  kernel/audit_watch.c  |    8 ++++----
>  kernel/auditsc.c      |    6 +++---
>  4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/audit.h b/include/linux/audit.h
> index c2e7e3a..48ae90c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/audit.h
> +++ b/include/linux/audit.h
> @@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
>  #include <linux/ptrace.h>
>  #include <uapi/linux/audit.h>
> 
> +#define AUDIT_INO_UNSET (unsigned long)-1
> +#define AUDIT_DEV_UNSET (unsigned int)-1

I suspect it was lost in the noise when I mentioned it on v4, but how about 
changing AUDIT_DEV_UNSET to "(dev_t)-1"?

-- 
paul moore
security @ redhat