[PATCH] Dropped audit_log_abend()

[Richard Guy Briggs]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 10:44:53AM -0500, Eric Paris wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 09:57 +0530, Paul Davies C wrote:
> > The audit_log_abend() is used only by the audit_core_dumps(). Thus there is no
> > need of maintaining the audit_log_abend() as a separate function.
> > 
> > This patch drops the audit_log_abend() and pushes its functionalities back to
> > the audit_core_dumps(). Apart from that the "reason" field is also dropped
> > from being logged since the reason can be deduced from the signal number.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Davies C <pauldaviesc at gmail.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis at redhat.com>

Looks fine to me.  I'll queue it.

> > ---
> >  kernel/auditsc.c |   10 ++--------
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
> > index 9845cb3..f2aa62a 100644
> > --- a/kernel/auditsc.c
> > +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
> > @@ -2368,13 +2368,6 @@ static void audit_log_task(struct audit_buffer *ab)
> >  	audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, current->comm);
> >  }
> >  
> > -static void audit_log_abend(struct audit_buffer *ab, char *reason, long signr)
> > -{
> > -	audit_log_task(ab);
> > -	audit_log_format(ab, " reason=");
> > -	audit_log_string(ab, reason);
> > -	audit_log_format(ab, " sig=%ld", signr);
> > -}
> >  /**
> >   * audit_core_dumps - record information about processes that end abnormally
> >   * @signr: signal value
> > @@ -2395,7 +2388,8 @@ void audit_core_dumps(long signr)
> >  	ab = audit_log_start(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_ANOM_ABEND);
> >  	if (unlikely(!ab))
> >  		return;
> > -	audit_log_abend(ab, "memory violation", signr);
> > +	audit_log_task(ab);
> > +	audit_log_format(ab, " sig=%ld", signr);
> >  	audit_log_end(ab);
> >  }
> >  

- RGB

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Richard Guy Briggs <rbriggs at redhat.com>
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