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

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Message-ID: <20141029185604.GJ20866@madcap2.tricolour.ca>
Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:56:04 -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, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> 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...

Wait, it is upstream in v3.18-rc1, commit 9ef9151

Forgot the Cc: to stable in that commit log.

> - RGB

- RGB

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