linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V6 4/4] audit: avoid double copying the audit

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Date:	Fri, 17 Jul 2015 14:01:47 -0400
From:	Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>
To:	Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
Cc:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, linux-audit@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sgrubb@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 4/4] audit: avoid double copying the audit_exe path string

On Friday, July 17, 2015 12:18:27 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 15/07/16, Eric Paris wrote:
> > I have to admit, I'm partial to not merging this (with the other
> > patches).  Changing object lifetimes in what i seem to remember is long
> > standing code (auditfilter, not auditexe) seems to me like something we
> > really would want to be git bisectable, not mushed with an unrelated
> > feature addition. But it ain't my tree   :)
> 
> So maybe even fixing this before applying the audit exe stuff has
> merit...

No, let's get the exe filter stuff in now just so I can get all you guys off 
my back about it :)

The refcnt stuff is almost surely going to get messy and I would just assume 
not deal with that right now since it appears to be working.  We have other 
stuff we need to fix first.

-- 
paul moore
security @ redhat

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