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authorChris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>2005-05-03 13:01:15 (GMT)
committerDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@shinybook.infradead.org>2005-05-03 13:01:15 (GMT)
commit0dd8e06bdaa0a97e706ee1a489a1f6176c4ddc64 (patch)
treef09181360e5b68d46ea2856c9fa63eaa3515080c /kernel
parent27b030d58c8e72fc7a95187a791bd9406e350f02 (diff)
downloadlinux-0dd8e06bdaa0a97e706ee1a489a1f6176c4ddc64.tar.xz
[PATCH] add new audit data to last skb
When adding more formatted audit data to an skb for delivery to userspace, the kernel will attempt to reuse an skb that has spare room. However, if the audit message has already been fragmented to multiple skb's, the search for spare room in the skb uses the head of the list. This will corrupt the audit message with trailing bytes being placed midway through the stream. Fix is to look at the end of the list. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/audit.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 4a697c7..00455a9 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ static void audit_log_move(struct audit_buffer *ab)
if (ab->len == 0)
return;
- skb = skb_peek(&ab->sklist);
+ skb = skb_peek_tail(&ab->sklist);
if (!skb || skb_tailroom(skb) <= ab->len + extra) {
skb = alloc_skb(2 * ab->len + extra, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!skb) {