[PATCH] LOGIN message credentials

[Chris Wright]

* Steve Grubb (sgrubb at redhat.com) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was testing the kernel and found a problem where the credentials are not 
> being recorded for LOGIN messages. Here's a typical message:
> 
> type=LOGIN msg=audit(1114444861.363:0): login pid=0 uid=0 old 
> loginuid=4294967295 new loginuid=0
> 
> The pid cannot be 0. The problem is that the kernel code assumes the 
> information is in the audit context. What if audit_get_context has never been 
> called for that process?
> 
> Attached is a patch that passes the needed info out of the task struct to the 
> function that emits the message.

Any reason not to simply pass the task in?

thanks,
-chris
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