[PATCH]: 2nd revision of make xfrm_audit_log more generic

[Joy Latten]

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 17:17 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Joy Latten <latten at austin.ibm.com>
> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:21:43 -0500
> 
> > This is 2nd revision of patch to modify xfrm_audit_log() such
> > that it can accomodate auditing other ipsec events
> > besides add/delete of an SA or SPD entry.
> > 
> > 2nd revision includes new define for all IPsec
> > events in audit.h and introduces "op=" entry
> > in logfile as well as add a hyphen in description
> > for report parsing. 
> > 
> > This is a small change to accomodate updating
> > ipsec protocol to RFCs 4301, 4302 and 4303 which
> > require auditing some ipsec events if auditing
> > is available. Please let me know if ok.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Joy Latten <latten at austin.ibm.com>
> 
> I like very much how the implementation of xfrm_audit_log() got
> simplified.
> 
> But _TEN_ function call arguments, good grief!
> 
> That's at least twice as many as most cpus can pass in registers.
> 
:-) :-) Sorry. Must have been in a fog or something now that I take a
step back and look at it. 
 
> Let's try an alternative where you have specialized
> xfrm_audit_log_foo() routines that take a user policy pointer, or
> whatever the main object is.
> 
> If internally this just unpacks the needed bits and calls some
> do_xfrm_audit_log() thing inside of the auditing code that takes lots
> of arguments, that's fine, but let's not expand all of that argument
> setup code in the main IPSEC code paths.

Fixing up right now. Will re-post when done.
Thanks!

Joy