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author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2013-04-09 02:22:10 -0700 |
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committer | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2013-05-07 22:27:15 -0400 |
commit | 780a7654cee8d61819512385e778e4827db4bfbc (patch) | |
tree | a97ea8256b7507c976714f9e9c48d8dd581d07a6 /fs/namei.c | |
parent | b24a30a7305418ff138ff51776fc555ec57c011a (diff) | |
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audit: Make testing for a valid loginuid explicit.
audit rule additions containing "-F auid!=4294967295" were failing
with EINVAL because of a regression caused by e1760bd.
Apparently some userland audit rule sets want to know if loginuid uid
has been set and are using a test for auid != 4294967295 to determine
that.
In practice that is a horrible way to ask if a value has been set,
because it relies on subtle implementation details and will break
every time the uid implementation in the kernel changes.
So add a clean way to test if the audit loginuid has been set, and
silently convert the old idiom to the cleaner and more comprehensible
new idiom.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.7
Reported-By: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Tested-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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