[PATCH] Dropped audit_log_abend()
Eric Paris
eparis at redhat.com
Fri Nov 8 15:44:53 UTC 2013
On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 09:57 +0530, Paul Davies C wrote:
> The audit_log_abend() is used only by the audit_core_dumps(). Thus there is no
> need of maintaining the audit_log_abend() as a separate function.
>
> This patch drops the audit_log_abend() and pushes its functionalities back to
> the audit_core_dumps(). Apart from that the "reason" field is also dropped
> from being logged since the reason can be deduced from the signal number.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Davies C <pauldaviesc at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis at redhat.com>
> ---
> kernel/auditsc.c | 10 ++--------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
> index 9845cb3..f2aa62a 100644
> --- a/kernel/auditsc.c
> +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
> @@ -2368,13 +2368,6 @@ static void audit_log_task(struct audit_buffer *ab)
> audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, current->comm);
> }
>
> -static void audit_log_abend(struct audit_buffer *ab, char *reason, long signr)
> -{
> - audit_log_task(ab);
> - audit_log_format(ab, " reason=");
> - audit_log_string(ab, reason);
> - audit_log_format(ab, " sig=%ld", signr);
> -}
> /**
> * audit_core_dumps - record information about processes that end abnormally
> * @signr: signal value
> @@ -2395,7 +2388,8 @@ void audit_core_dumps(long signr)
> ab = audit_log_start(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_ANOM_ABEND);
> if (unlikely(!ab))
> return;
> - audit_log_abend(ab, "memory violation", signr);
> + audit_log_task(ab);
> + audit_log_format(ab, " sig=%ld", signr);
> audit_log_end(ab);
> }
>
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