Re: [PATCH] audit: convert status version to a feature bitmap

On Thursday, November 13, 2014 08:08:52 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > So what terrible things happen to userspace if > > AUDIT_VERSION_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME becomes 0x03 instead of 0x02? > > But it won't. It gets the value of > AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME, which is 0x00000002. > > I think you meant to ask about AUDIT_VERSION_LATEST, which would become 3. > > You *did* already ask that question in a previous thread, and there > didn't seem to be a concern. Steve Grubb could likely answer this > question better than me. The audit 2.4.1 package has been pushed to everything from F20 -> rawhide. If you don't see any problems, then its safe. But check carefully around the things that you did change. Right now, we only are caring about only one kernel feature, --loginuid-immutable. Check that it still works, auditctl -s.

-Steve