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authorRichard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>2014-11-17 21:51:01 +0100
committerPaul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>2014-11-17 22:53:51 +0100
commit0288d7183c41c0192d2963d44590f346f4aee917 (patch)
tree1147d4f39628c55e685cb71b26ede29c9f08af9a /kernel
parentaudit: add Paul Moore to the MAINTAINERS entry (diff)
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audit: convert status version to a feature bitmap
The version field defined in the audit status structure was found to have limitations in terms of its expressibility of features supported. This is distict from the get/set features call to be able to command those features that are present. Converting this field from a version number to a feature bitmap will allow distributions to selectively backport and support certain features and will allow upstream to be able to deprecate features in the future. It will allow userspace clients to first query the kernel for which features are actually present and supported. Currently, EINVAL is returned rather than EOPNOTSUP, which isn't helpful in determining if there was an error in the command, or if it simply isn't supported yet. Past features are not represented by this bitmap, but their use may be converted to EOPNOTSUP if needed in the future. Since "version" is too generic to convert with a #define, use a union in the struct status, introducing the member "feature_bitmap" unionized with "version". Convert existing AUDIT_VERSION_* macros over to AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP* counterparts, leaving the former for backwards compatibility. Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> [PM: minor whitespace tweaks] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/audit.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 53bb39bf79e2..7b83c557aee6 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
s.backlog_limit = audit_backlog_limit;
s.lost = atomic_read(&audit_lost);
s.backlog = skb_queue_len(&audit_skb_queue);
- s.version = AUDIT_VERSION_LATEST;
+ s.feature_bitmap = AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_ALL;
s.backlog_wait_time = audit_backlog_wait_time;
audit_send_reply(skb, seq, AUDIT_GET, 0, 0, &s, sizeof(s));
break;