Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935418AbaKODc6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:32:58 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60092 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934378AbaKODc4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:32:56 -0500 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:32:51 -0500 From: Richard Guy Briggs To: Steve Grubb Cc: Paul Moore , linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eparis@parisplace.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] audit: convert status version to a feature bitmap Message-ID: <20141115033251.GB31373@madcap2.tricolour.ca> References: <1745832.tbkjBzSGxr@sifl> <20141114010852.GB5960@madcap2.tricolour.ca> <2673987.auILhPtmMS@x2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2673987.auILhPtmMS@x2> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 14/11/13, Steve Grubb wrote: > On Thursday, November 13, 2014 08:08:52 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > > So what terrible things happen to userspace if > > > AUDIT_VERSION_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME becomes 0x03 instead of 0x02? > > > > But it won't. It gets the value of > > AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME, which is 0x00000002. > > > > I think you meant to ask about AUDIT_VERSION_LATEST, which would become 3. > > > > You *did* already ask that question in a previous thread, and there > > didn't seem to be a concern. Steve Grubb could likely answer this > > question better than me. > > The audit 2.4.1 package has been pushed to everything from F20 -> rawhide. If > you don't see any problems, then its safe. But check carefully around the > things that you did change. Right now, we only are caring about only one > kernel feature, --loginuid-immutable. Check that it still works, auditctl -s. Here's my output, which I assume looks sane: [root@f20 ~]# rpm -q audit audit-2.4.1-1.fc20.x86_64 [root@f20 ~]# auditctl -s enabled 1 flag 1 pid 307 rate_limit 0 backlog_limit 320 lost 0 backlog 0 backlog_wait_time 60000 loginuid_immutable 0 unlocked > -Steve - RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs Senior Software Engineer, Kernel Security, AMER ENG Base Operating Systems, Red Hat Remote, Ottawa, Canada Voice: +1.647.777.2635, Internal: (81) 32635, Alt: +1.613.693.0684x3545 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/