Error handling of auditctl -w

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Sun Jun 21 18:38:39 UTC 2020


Hello,

On Tuesday, June 16, 2020 4:00:17 PM EDT Stefan Tauner wrote:
> I was wondering why my auditctl executions do not print any errors but
> apparently didn't do anything. After checking the return value (which
> was 255) I looked at the code and noticed that audit_setup_perms() and
> audit_update_watch_perms() have virtually no user-visible error reporting.

Git commit 4a2b9fd should fix this. Thanks for reporting it!

-Steve






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