Re: [PATCH] Fixed reason field in audit signal logging
On 11/07/2013 08:43 AM, Eric Paris wrote:
On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 19:09 +0530, Paul Davies C wrote:
> The audit system logs the signals that leads to abnormal end of a process.
> However , as of now , it always states the reason for failure of a process as
> "memory violation" regardless of the signal delivered. This is due to the
> audit_core_dumps() function pass the reason for failure blindly to the
> audit_log_abend() as "memory violation".
>
> This patch changes the audit_core_dumps() function as to pass on the right
> reason to the audit_log_abend based on the signal received.
>
> Signed-off-by:Paul Davies C
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis(a)redhat.com>
But we really should wait for an Ack and thoughts from steve grubb....
FWIW I really like this fix. It will be valuable to me (once I get it in
my RHEL-6.2 systems); thanks!
LCB
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