On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 01:37:09PM -0700, John Johansen wrote: > On 08/30/2013 12:56 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 07:21:55PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > >> On 08/20, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > Most of the instances are current, but the one called from apparmour is > > stored. I've just learned that this is bad and someone else just chimed > > in that they have a patch to remove it... > > the apparmor case isn't actually stored long term. The stored task will be > a parameter that was passed into an lsm hook and the buffer that it is > stored in dies before the hook is done. Its temporarily stored in the > struct so that it can be passed into the lsm_audit fn, and printed into an > allocated audit buffer. The text version in the audit buffer is what will > exist beyond the hook. > > There are three patches, I'll reply them below once I have finished rebasing > them to apply to the current tree instead of my dev tree.
John, thanks for this context and fix. That helps simplify things. - RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs <rbri...@redhat.com> Senior Software Engineer Kernel Security AMER ENG Base Operating Systems 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 majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
