Re: [PATCH ghak107 V1] audit: remove unused actx param from audit_rule_match

From: Paul Moore
Date: Thu Jan 31 2019 - 23:15:37 EST


On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:52 AM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The audit_rule_match() struct audit_context *actx parameter is not used
> by any in-tree consumers (selinux, apparmour, integrity, smack).
>
> The audit context is an internal audit structure that should only be
> accessed by audit accessor functions.
>
> It was part of commit 03d37d25e0f9 ("LSM/Audit: Introduce > generic
> Audit LSM hooks") but appears to have never been used.

Merged into audit/next, but a heads-up that you added a ">" into the
referenced commit title. I'm not sure if that was a cut-n-paste
problem, or something else, but just a note to be a bit more careful
in the future about those things.

> Remove it.
>
> Please see the github issue
> https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/107
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Passes audit-testsuite.
>
> include/linux/lsm_hooks.h | 4 +---
> include/linux/security.h | 5 ++---
> kernel/auditfilter.c | 2 +-
> kernel/auditsc.c | 21 ++++++++++++---------
> security/apparmor/audit.c | 3 +--
> security/apparmor/include/audit.h | 3 +--
> security/integrity/ima/ima.h | 3 +--
> security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c | 6 ++----
> security/security.c | 6 ++----
> security/selinux/include/audit.h | 4 +---
> security/selinux/ss/services.c | 3 +--
> security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 4 +---
> 12 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

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