* [PATCH] audit: drop /proc/PID/loginuid documentation Format field
@ 2021-04-01 19:10 Richard Guy Briggs
2021-04-01 22:33 ` Paul Moore
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Richard Guy Briggs @ 2021-04-01 19:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux-Audit Mailing List, LKML
Cc: Eric Paris, Paul Moore, Richard Guy Briggs, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Drop the "Format:" field from the /proc/PID/loginuid documentation and
integrate the information into the Description field since it is not
recognized by the "./scripts/get_abi.pl validate" command which causes a
warning. Documentation/ABI/README describes the valid fields.
Reported-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
---
.../ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid | 22 +++++++++----------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid b/Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid
index 9d55a3ff4b34..cda405178391 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid
@@ -2,26 +2,26 @@ What: Audit Login UID
Date: 2005-02-01
KernelVersion: 2.6.11-rc2 1e2d1492e178 ("[PATCH] audit: handle loginuid through proc")
Contact: linux-audit@redhat.com
-Format: %u
Users: audit and login applications
Description:
The /proc/$pid/loginuid pseudofile is written to set and
- read to get the audit login UID of process $pid. If it is
- unset, permissions are not needed to set it. The accessor must
- have CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL in the initial user namespace to write
- it if it has been set. It cannot be written again if
- AUDIT_FEATURE_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE is enabled. It cannot be
- unset if AUDIT_FEATURE_ONLY_UNSET_LOGINUID is enabled.
-
+ read to get the audit login UID of process $pid as a
+ decimal unsigned int (%u, u32). If it is unset,
+ permissions are not needed to set it. The accessor must
+ have CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL in the initial user namespace to
+ write it if it has been set. It cannot be written again
+ if AUDIT_FEATURE_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE is enabled. It
+ cannot be unset if AUDIT_FEATURE_ONLY_UNSET_LOGINUID is
+ enabled.
What: Audit Login Session ID
Date: 2008-03-13
KernelVersion: 2.6.25-rc7 1e0bd7550ea9 ("[PATCH] export sessionid alongside the loginuid in procfs")
Contact: linux-audit@redhat.com
-Format: %u
Users: audit and login applications
Description:
The /proc/$pid/sessionid pseudofile is read to get the
- audit login session ID of process $pid. It is set
- automatically, serially assigned with each new login.
+ audit login session ID of process $pid as a decimal
+ unsigned int (%u, u32). It is set automatically,
+ serially assigned with each new login.
--
2.27.0
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* Re: [PATCH] audit: drop /proc/PID/loginuid documentation Format field
2021-04-01 19:10 [PATCH] audit: drop /proc/PID/loginuid documentation Format field Richard Guy Briggs
@ 2021-04-01 22:33 ` Paul Moore
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From: Paul Moore @ 2021-04-01 22:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Richard Guy Briggs
Cc: Linux-Audit Mailing List, LKML, Eric Paris, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 3:11 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Drop the "Format:" field from the /proc/PID/loginuid documentation and
> integrate the information into the Description field since it is not
> recognized by the "./scripts/get_abi.pl validate" command which causes a
> warning. Documentation/ABI/README describes the valid fields.
>
> Reported-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
> ---
> .../ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid | 22 +++++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
Merged into audit/next, thanks.
--
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com
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