[PATCH] integrity: get comm using lock to avoid race in string printing

Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Apr 2 18:12:48 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 14:00 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: 
> Hello Mimi,
> 
> On Wednesday, April 02, 2014 01:39:47 PM Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > This change is already being upstreamed as commit 73a6b44 "Integrity:
> > Pass commname via get_task_comm()".
> 
> While I was looking at Richard's patch, I noticed a few places where cause and 
> op are logged and the string isn't tied together with a _ or -. These are in 
> ima/ima_appraise.c line 383, and ima/ima_policy.c lines 333, 657, and 683. Are 
> these fixed upstream? Or should a patch be made?

Nothing has changed in terms of 'cause' and 'op'.  I would suggest
making the changes in integrity_audit.c: integrity_audit_msg().

thanks,

Mimi





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