the format string of printf to print audit status is wrong

Yu Zhiguo yuzg at cn.fujitsu.com
Thu Jul 31 05:07:48 UTC 2008


Hello Steve,

  all audit status's type is __u32, so '%u' should be used
in format string of printf rather than '%d', otherwise the
value outputted to user will be wraparound.

  For example:
  # auditctl -r 4294967295
  AUDIT_STATUS: enabled=1 flag=1 pid=8999 rate_limit=-1 backlog_limit=320 
lost=2241 backlog=0

but it should be
  # auditctl -r 4294967295
  AUDIT_STATUS: enabled=1 flag=1 pid=8999 rate_limit=4294967295 
backlog_limit=320 lost=2270 backlog=0


  This is the patch. Can you apply it?

Signed-off-by: Yu Zhiguo<yuzg at cn.fujitsu.com>
---
  src/auditctl.c |    4 ++--
  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/auditctl.c b/src/auditctl.c
index d740509..5416e9b 100644
--- a/src/auditctl.c
+++ b/src/auditctl.c
@@ -1349,8 +1349,8 @@ static int audit_print_reply(struct audit_reply *rep)
  			printed = 1;
  			return 0;
  		case AUDIT_GET:
-			printf("AUDIT_STATUS: enabled=%d flag=%d pid=%d"
-			" rate_limit=%d backlog_limit=%d lost=%d backlog=%d\n",
+			printf("AUDIT_STATUS: enabled=%u flag=%u pid=%u"
+			" rate_limit=%u backlog_limit=%u lost=%u backlog=%u\n",
  			rep->status->enabled, rep->status->failure,
  			rep->status->pid, rep->status->rate_limit,
  			rep->status->backlog_limit, rep->status->lost,




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