linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] audit: remove stray newlines from audit_log

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Date:	Wed, 5 Mar 2014 18:11:54 -0500
From:	Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] audit: remove stray newlines from audit_log_lost messages

On 14/03/05, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 17:27 -0500, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > On 14/03/05, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > Calling audit_log_lost with a \n in the format string leads to extra
> > > newlines in dmesg.  That function will eventually call audit_panic which
> > > uses pr_err with an explicit \n included.  Just make these calls match the
> > > others that lack \n.
> > > 
> > > Reported-by: Jonathan Kamens <jik@...ens.brookline.ma.us>
> > > Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
> > 
> > Ack.  queued.
> 
> There's an unnecessary use of a \n in audit_panic too

Thanks, also queued.

> ---
>  kernel/auditsc.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
> index 7aef2f4..da93d2e 100644
> --- a/kernel/auditsc.c
> +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
> @@ -1157,7 +1157,7 @@ static void audit_log_execve_info(struct audit_context *context,
>  	 */
>  	buf = kmalloc(MAX_EXECVE_AUDIT_LEN + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!buf) {
> -		audit_panic("out of memory for argv string\n");
> +		audit_panic("out of memory for argv string");
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> 
> 

- RGB

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