On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Paul Moore <[email protected]> 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. > > Ugh. Ok, I pulled the thing, even if I really hope for a better > solution long-term. That better solution may well be to get rid of all > the audit hackery in getname()/putname(), I wouldn't mind that at all.
Thanks. We'll make this better, I'm confident of that, I'm just not certain if it will be v3.19-rcX or v3.20 material at this point. -- paul moore www.paul-moore.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
