[PATCH] Add audit uid to netlink credentials

Patrick McHardy kaber at trash.net
Tue Feb 8 06:04:13 UTC 2005


On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Most audit control messages are sent over netlink.  In order to properly
> log the identity of the sender of audit control messages, we would like
> to add the loginuid to the netlink_creds structure, as per the attached
> patch.

Reception of netlink messages in the kernel happens in the context
of the sending process, so you can simply call
audit_get_loginuid(current->audit_context) in audit_receive_msg().

Regards
Patrick




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