linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V1] audit: add warning that an old auditd may be starved out by a new auditd

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Message-ID: <CAHC9VhQq4vtngADyh3SBzg1QzoHoL5_R5D3pHCjD0ass7OqQZg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:40:30 -0400
From:	Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
To:	Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
Cc:	v.rathor@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-audit@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V1] audit: add warning that an old auditd may be starved
 out by a new auditd

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 7:35 AM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com> wrote:
> On 15/09/16, Paul Moore wrote:
>> Otherwise, I think adding a result/success field to the
>> AUDIT_CONFIG_CHANGE record makes sense as long as it doesn't break
>> Steve's parsing code (I don't think it will, although it may simply
>> ignore it, which is okay).
>
> It is already there, but never used for anything but success.  I'm
> proposing to add code to actually report the failures too.

So it is, even better as there shouldn't be a userspace problem.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com
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