[PATCH] arch filter lists with < or > should not be accepted

[Alexander Viro]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 05:46:21PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> Currently the kernel audit system represents arch's as numbers and will
> gladly accept comparisons between archs using >, <, >=, <= when the only
> thing that makes sense is = or !=.  I'm told that the next revision of
> auditctl will do this checking but this will provide enforcement in the
> kernel even for old userspace.  A simple command to show the issue would
> be to run
> 
> auditctl -d entry,always -F arch>i686 -S chmod
> 
> with this patch the kernel will reject this with -EINVAL
> 
> Please comment/ack/nak as soon as possible.

ACK