[PATCH]: revised make xfrm_audit_log more generic patch

Joy Latten latten at austin.ibm.com
Tue Jul 24 16:17:58 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 11:04 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:

> > +       audit_log_format(audit_buf, "%s: auid=%u", buf, auid);
> >  
> >         if (sid != 0 &&
> >                 security_secid_to_secctx(sid, &secctx, &secctx_len) == 0)
> 
> The operation in buf will not be parsed by the user space tools. Let's 
> use "op=%s " where you have "%s: " above. Audit record fields are name=value 
> and fields separated by spaces. "op" is what we are using in other places to 
> mean operation. 
> 
> I know its a change from the records above, but we previously had some detail 
> about what operation was being performed by the record type and this did not 
> matter so much. Now that we only have one event type, the meaning of the 
> event being recorded needs to be parsable and in a field. 
> 
> It also wouldn't hurt to change the text being sent to this function to have a 
> hyphen instead of a space, so "SPD delete" becomes "SPD-delete". This keeps 
> the parser happy.
> 
> This patch otherwise looks good.

Sounds good. I will make the changes and resend. 
Thanks!!

Joy




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