Typo in AUDIT_FEATURE_CHANGE events [was: Re: [RFC][PATCH] audit: log join and part events to the read-only multicast log socket]

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Thu Oct 30 15:10:48 UTC 2014


On Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:48:28 AM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 14/10/22, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > Speaking of which, I just found a typo in
> > AUDIT_FEATURE_CHANGE events.
> 
> Just so I don't lose this, what's the problem there?  I don't see a
> typo, but question the field names.
> 
> 	audit_log_format(ab, "feature=%s old=%u new=%u old_lock=%u new_lock=%u res=%d",

You need to start feature= with a space. For example, see how it gets
appended to subj=:

time->Mon Oct 27 16:11:21 2014
type=FEATURE_CHANGE msg=audit(1414440681.713:17710):  ppid=13599 pid=13618 auid=4294967295
 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="auditctl"
 exe="/usr/sbin/auditctl" subj=system_u:system_r:auditctl_t:s0feature=loginuid_immutable old=0 new=1 
old_lock=0 new_lock=1 res=1


-Steve




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