[RFC PATCH] audit: Fix possible return value truncation in audit_get_context()
Alexander Viro
aviro at redhat.com
Wed Apr 1 21:19:41 UTC 2009
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 03:47:27PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> The audit subsystem treats syscall return codes as type long, unfortunately
> the audit_get_context() function mistakenly converts the return code to an
> int type in the parameters which could cause problems on systems where the
> sizeof(int) != sizeof(long).
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore at hp.com>
Applied. E.g. for mmap() it's actually easy to trigger on 64bit boxen.
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