Audit issue

[Steve Grubb]

On Thursday 08 November 2007 09:19:26 Alexander Viro wrote:
> Have fun...

Thanks for posting this patch. Is it impossible to "repair " processes by 
simply adding a context if the pointer is NULL?


> diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
> index f93c271..83227f8 100644
> --- a/kernel/audit.c
> +++ b/kernel/audit.c
> @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ static int	audit_initialized;
>   * 1 - auditing enabled
>   * 2 - auditing enabled and configuration is locked/unchangeable. */
>  int		audit_enabled;
> +int		audit_ever_enabled;
>
>  /* Default state when kernel boots without any parameters. */
>  static int	audit_default;
> @@ -965,6 +968,7 @@ static int __init audit_init(void)
>  	skb_queue_head_init(&audit_skb_queue);
>  	audit_initialized = 1;
>  	audit_enabled = audit_default;
> +	audit_ever_enabled |= !!audit_default;

Should the declaration of audit_ever_enabled set a default value like 0 since 
this is being or'ed in? Or should this just be an assignment?

-Steve