[PATCH] integrity: get comm using lock to avoid race in string printing

Eric Paris eparis at redhat.com
Wed Apr 2 18:18:36 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 14:12 -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 14:00 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: 
> > Hello Mimi,
> > 
> > On Wednesday, April 02, 2014 01:39:47 PM Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > > This change is already being upstreamed as commit 73a6b44 "Integrity:
> > > Pass commname via get_task_comm()".
> > 
> > While I was looking at Richard's patch, I noticed a few places where cause and 
> > op are logged and the string isn't tied together with a _ or -. These are in 
> > ima/ima_appraise.c line 383, and ima/ima_policy.c lines 333, 657, and 683. Are 
> > these fixed upstream? Or should a patch be made?
> 
> Nothing has changed in terms of 'cause' and 'op'.  I would suggest
> making the changes in integrity_audit.c: integrity_audit_msg().

The question is actually, do you know of anyone who is expecting the
space, instead of a more 'audit standard' - or _ ?  If not, we'll change
it.  If so, we'll discuss more   :)

-Eric




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