[PATCH] initialize name osid in audit_getname()

Amy Griffis amy.griffis at hp.com
Wed Jan 24 00:02:00 UTC 2007


Audit contexts can be reused, so initialize a name's osid to the
default in audit_getname(). This ensures we don't log a bogus object
label when no inode data is collected for a name.

Untested patch against lspp.63 kernel.

Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis at hp.com>
---
diff -Nrup linux-2.6.18.x86_64/kernel/auditsc.c linux-2.6.18.x86_64-amg/kernel/auditsc.c
--- linux-2.6.18.x86_64/kernel/auditsc.c	2007-01-23 17:17:07.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.18.x86_64-amg/kernel/auditsc.c	2007-01-23 17:20:35.000000000 -0500
@@ -1215,6 +1215,7 @@ void __audit_getname(const char *name)
 	context->names[context->name_count].name_len = AUDIT_NAME_FULL;
 	context->names[context->name_count].name_put = 1;
 	context->names[context->name_count].ino  = (unsigned long)-1;
+	context->names[context->name_count].osid = 0;
 	++context->name_count;
 	if (!context->pwd) {
 		read_lock(&current->fs->lock);




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