Re: [PATCH V5 0/5] audit by executable name

[Eric Paris]

On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 17:56 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:

> * Change the audit_status.version field comment in include/uapi/linux/audit.h 
> to "/* audit functionality bitmap */", or similar.  We can't really change the 
> structure now, but the comment is fair game.

Trying to think how to do things with a #define so you can rename,
"version" is pretty darn generic to pre-process.  You could make it a
union, so userspace code and use a sane name....

> 
> * Change AUDIT_VERSION_LATEST to a bitmask instead of a number.  For example, 
> it should be 3 given the current code, not 2.  In a perfect world this 
> wouldn't even be in the uapi header, but it is so we need to keep it updated.  
> Bumping it higher should be backwards compatible.

Getting 1 without 2 is actually hard to accompish as I remember, but
yes, you're right, i missed that.  I should be 3....

> Can anyone think of anything else that might be affected by this?

No one uses this stuff, just change it.


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