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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
	linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	<netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] audit: Simplify by assuming the callers socket buffer is large enough
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 13:30:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140304133004.b565820f60f595a48e621e58@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mwhaplo4.fsf_-_@xmission.com>

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:50:19 -0800 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> 
> Modify audit_send_reply to directly use a non-blocking send and
> to return an error on failure (if anyone cares).
> 
> Modify audit_list_rules_send to use audit_send_reply and give up
> if we can not send a packet.
> 
> Merge audit_list_rules into iaudit_list_rules_send as the code
> is now sufficiently simple to not justify to callers.
> 
> Kill audit_send_list, audit_send_reply_thread because using
> a separate thread for replies is not needed when sending
> packets syncrhonously.

Nothing much seems to be happening here?

In an earlier email you said "While reading through 3.14-rc1 I found a
pretty siginficant mishandling of network namespaces in the recent
audit changes." Were those recent audit changes a post-3.14 thing?  And
what is the user-visible effect of the mishandling?

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-04 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-28 18:49 [PATCH] audit: Use struct net not pid_t to remember the network namespce to reply in Eric W. Biederman
2014-03-01  1:11 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2014-03-01  4:34   ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-03-01  4:36     ` [PATCH] audit: Send replies in the proper network namespace Eric W. Biederman
2014-03-01  4:50       ` [RFC][PATCH] audit: Simplify by assuming the callers socket buffer is large enough Eric W. Biederman
2014-03-04 21:30         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2014-03-04 21:51           ` David Miller
2014-03-04 22:41             ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-03-04 22:50               ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-10  3:06                 ` [GIT PULL] namespaces fixes for 3.14-rcX Eric W. Biederman
2014-03-10 13:59                   ` Eric Paris
2014-03-10 19:56                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-03-16 18:36                       ` Richard Guy Briggs
2014-03-05  0:21               ` [RFC][PATCH] audit: Simplify by assuming the callers socket buffer is large enough David Miller
2014-03-05 16:59                 ` Steve Grubb
2014-03-05 18:06                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-03-07 22:52                     ` Eric Paris
2014-03-08  0:48                       ` David Miller
2014-03-08  3:27                         ` Steve Grubb
2014-03-08  6:34                           ` David Miller
2014-03-08  3:56                         ` Eric Paris
2014-03-10 19:30                       ` David Miller
2014-03-10 21:57                         ` Eric Paris
2014-03-16 18:19       ` [PATCH] audit: Send replies in the proper network namespace Richard Guy Briggs
2014-03-16 19:13         ` Richard Guy Briggs
2014-03-16 18:15 ` [PATCH] audit: Use struct net not pid_t to remember the network namespce to reply in Richard Guy Briggs
2014-03-16 19:12   ` Richard Guy Briggs

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