linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][STABLE] audit: correct AUDIT_GET

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Message-ID: <20141029162927.GG20866@madcap2.tricolour.ca>
Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:29:27 -0400
From:	Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-audit@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sgrubb@...hat.com, pmoore@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][STABLE] audit: correct AUDIT_GET_FEATURE return message
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On 14/10/29, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 09:35:06AM -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > When an AUDIT_GET_FEATURE message is sent from userspace to the kernel, it
> > should reply with a message tagged as an AUDIT_GET_FEATURE type with a struct
> > audit_feature.  The current reply is a message tagged as an AUDIT_GET
> > type with a struct audit_feature.
> > 
> > This appears to have been a cut-and-paste-eo in commit b0fed40.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@...hat.com>
> > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # v3.13-rc1
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
> > ---
> >  kernel/audit.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> Why did you send this directly to stable@...r?  That's not how to get a
> patch into the stable kernel trees...

Sorry, you're right.  It should be accepted upstream first.  I'll go
back and make sure that gets done...

- RGB

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