[PATCH 1/2] integrity: Add errno field in audit message

Lakshmi Ramasubramanian nramas at linux.microsoft.com
Thu Jun 11 01:58:45 UTC 2020


On 6/10/20 6:45 PM, Paul Moore wrote:

Hi Paul,

> I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to mention this before you posted this
> patch, but for the past several years we have been sticking with a
> policy of only adding new fields to the end of existing records;
> please adjust this patch accordingly.  Otherwise, this looks fine to
> me.
> 
>>          audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, get_task_comm(name, current));
>>          if (fname) {
>>                  audit_log_format(ab, " name=");
>> --

Steve mentioned that since this new field "errno" is not a searchable 
entry, it can be added anywhere in the audit log message.

But I have no problem moving this to the end of the audit record.

thanks,
  -lakshmi





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