linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] audit: convert status version to a feature bitmap

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Message-ID: <2673987.auILhPtmMS@x2>
Date:	Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:51:36 -0500
From:	Steve Grubb <sgrubb@...hat.com>
To:	Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
Cc:	Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>, linux-audit@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, eparis@...isplace.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] audit: convert status version to a feature bitmap

On Thursday, November 13, 2014 08:08:52 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > So what terrible things happen to userspace if
> > AUDIT_VERSION_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME  becomes 0x03 instead of 0x02?
> 
> But it won't.  It gets the value of
> AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME, which is 0x00000002.
> 
> I think you meant to ask about AUDIT_VERSION_LATEST, which would become 3.
> 
> You *did* already ask that question in a previous thread, and there
> didn't seem to be a concern.  Steve Grubb could likely answer this
> question better than me.

The audit 2.4.1 package has been pushed to everything from F20 -> rawhide. If 
you don't see any problems, then its safe. But check carefully around the 
things that you did change. Right now, we only are caring about only one 
kernel feature, --loginuid-immutable. Check that it still works, auditctl -s.

-Steve
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