[PATCH v2 0/5] Overhaul the audit filename handling

[Guenter Roeck]

On 01/22/2015 08:22 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 09:36:34 PM Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On 01/21/2015 08:59 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
>>> This patchset has some important changes from the previous revision,
>>> namely a fix from Al Viro (included in 2/5) that resolves a boot panic
>>> on some systems as well as some smaller, less noteworthy fixes found
>>> in the linux-next announcement thread from January 20th (refcount bump
>>> in __audit_reusename() and a inode type in __audit_inode()).
>>>
>>> This patchset still needs some additional testing to verify that the
>>> audit code still functions properly (the minor fixes mentioned above)
>>> and there is an additional patch from Al that should be included as
>>> well, but I wanted to post this and push the series to the audit next
>>> branch quickly since a number of folks were affected by the boot panic.
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Paul Moore (5):
>>>         fs: rework getname_kernel to handle up to PATH_MAX sized filenames
>>>         fs: create proper filename objects using getname_kernel()
>>>         audit: enable filename recording via getname_kernel()
>>>         audit: fix filename matching in __audit_inode() and
>>>         __audit_inode_child()
>>>         audit: replace getname()/putname() hacks with reference counters
>>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> What is the baseline for this patch set ? Obviously -next won't work,
>> and it does not apply to mainline either.
>
> This patchset currently lives, along with one other unrelated patch, in the
> audit next branch:
>
>   * git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit
>
> I'm currently testing these in combination with the patch Al posted last
> night.  Assuming all goes well I'll drop them from the audit next branch and
> toss all six patches (these plus Al's) into another branch in case Al wants to
> pull them for the VFS tree.
>
The version in the audit next tree works with my qemu microblaze test,
so feel free to add

Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>

Guenter