Clearly this was supposed to be an == not an = in the if statement. This patch also causes us to stop processing execve args once we have failed rather than continuing to loop on failure over and over and over. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis(a)redhat.com&gt; --- kernel/auditsc.c | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c index ac6d9b2..2087d6d 100644 --- a/kernel/auditsc.c +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c @@ -1000,9 +1000,10 @@ static int audit_log_single_execve_arg(struct audit_context *context, * for strings that are too long, we should not have created * any. */ - if (unlikely((len = -1) || len > MAX_ARG_STRLEN - 1)) { + if (unlikely((len == -1) || len > MAX_ARG_STRLEN - 1)) { WARN_ON(1); send_sig(SIGKILL, current, 0); + return -1; } /* walk the whole argument looking for non-ascii chars */ @@ -1020,6 +1021,7 @@ static int audit_log_single_execve_arg(struct audit_context *context, if (ret) { WARN_ON(1); send_sig(SIGKILL, current, 0); + return -1; } buf[to_send] = '\0'; has_cntl = audit_string_contains_control(buf, to_send); @@ -1083,6 +1085,7 @@ static int audit_log_single_execve_arg(struct audit_context *context, if (ret) { WARN_ON(1); send_sig(SIGKILL, current, 0); + return -1; } buf[to_send] = '\0';