audit function doc. question
Chris Wright
chrisw at osdl.org
Wed Jul 6 22:21:15 UTC 2005
* randy_dunlap (rdunlap at xenotime.net) wrote:
> kernel/audit.c (2.6.13-rc1-git5) audit_log_start() says:
>
> /* Obtain an audit buffer. This routine does locking to obtain the
> * audit buffer, but then no locking is required for calls to
> * audit_log_*format. If the tsk is a task that is currently in a
> * syscall, then the syscall is marked as auditable and an audit record
> * will be written at syscall exit. If there is no associated task, tsk
> * should be NULL. */
> struct audit_buffer *audit_log_start(struct audit_context *ctx, int type)
> {
>
> What does <tsk> refer to in the function description?
> There is no <tsk> in this function.
It refers to tsk, tsk, stale comment. It's task->audit_context (which is
ctx there). Interested in preparing a patch, could even move to proper
kerneldoc format ;-)
thanks,
-chris
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