[PATCH 2/2] audit string fields interface + consumer

[Timothy R. Chavez]

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 17:19 -0500, Amy Griffis wrote:
> Here is an update that incorporates changes based on Tim's feedback:
>     - sanity check for path with trailing /
>     - call path_release
>     - use audit_compare_watch
> 
> and fixes panics due to the assumption of the existence of
> rule->watch.
>
> diff --git a/kernel/audit.h b/kernel/audit.h
> index f3b2a00..cc979e9 100644
> --- a/kernel/audit.h
> +++ b/kernel/audit.h
> @@ -52,6 +52,12 @@ enum audit_state {
>  };
>  
>  /* Rule lists */
> +struct audit_watch {
> +	char			*path; /* watch insertion path */
> +	struct list_head	mlist; /* entry in master_watchlist */
> +	struct list_head	rules; /* associated rules */
> +};
> +
>  struct audit_field {
>  	u32			type;
>  	u32			val;
> @@ -67,6 +73,8 @@ struct audit_krule {
>  	u32			buflen; /* for data alloc on list rules */
>  	u32			field_count;
>  	struct audit_field	fields[AUDIT_MAX_FIELDS];
> +	struct audit_watch	*watch; /* associated watch */
> +	struct list_head	rlist; /* entry in audit_watch.rules list */
>  };

This may not really be that important, but if you switch to hlist_head
you have a 4-byte savings, which is something...

AUDIT_MAX_FIELDS defaults to 64, sizeof(audit_field) is 12-bytes...
768-bytes... 788-bytes per audit_krule?

Not sure if this qualifies as stack abuse though, which is why I say it
might not be that important.  I'm still a little concerned about
AUDIT_MAX_FIELDS though... How much of that stack space is actually
being used on average?

-tim