On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 05:08:12PM -0500, Paul Moore wrote:
> The getname/putname hacks work in the normal file case, but it falls apart
> when you start talking about AF_UNIX socket files where the filename string
> doesn't go through the getname/putname refcount tricks. In the past (no idea
> how far back this goes off the top of my head) this wasn't an issue since the
> code which recorded the filenames in the audit records was broken, but since
> we just "fixed" that problem, the AF_UNIX socket problem is now making an
> appearance.
>
> At least that is how it looks to me right now, if I'm wrong about this and
> I'm
> missing an obvious fix I'm all ears/eyes/etc.
Umm... How about just adding a function that would be used instead of
all those
struct filename filename = { .name = name };
and created an object that would be destroyed later by putname()?
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