[patch] Syscall auditing - move "name=" field to the end

[Chris Wright]

* Kris Wilson (krisw at us.ibm.com) wrote:
> > I don't think this patch is enough -- either we need to escape the text
> > completely or just dump it as hex instead of a string. One option would
> > be to dump it in quotes as a string if all chars in the string are in
> > the range 0x20-0x7e, and as hex otherwise. That slightly complicates the
> > parsing, but not by much, and still gives you plain text in the majority
> > of cases while protecting against abuse.
> 
> Dumping in hex instead of string would have a testing impact.  Using a
> string in quotes would be a
> smaller hit, but there still would be additional impact to test the "hex
> otherwise" case.

We need to do something, as it is the data can't be trusted.  It's a way
for user to possibly inject false audit messages.  And most characters
are valid in pathnames.

thanks,
-chris
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