Re: [PATCH 2/2] audit: Convert int limit uses to u32

[Eric Paris]

On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 10:33 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> The equivalent uapi struct uses __u32 so make the kernel
> uses u32 too.
> 
> This can prevent some oddities where the limit is
> logged/emitted as a negative value.
> 
> Convert kstrtol to kstrtouint to disallow negative values.


> diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
> index f397ab2..902c3aa 100644
> --- a/kernel/audit.c
> +++ b/kernel/audit.c
> @@ -79,16 +79,16 @@ static int	audit_initialized;
>  #define AUDIT_OFF	0
>  #define AUDIT_ON	1
>  #define AUDIT_LOCKED	2
> -int		audit_enabled;
> -int		audit_ever_enabled;
> +u32		audit_enabled;
> +u32		audit_ever_enabled;
>  
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(audit_enabled);
>  
>  /* Default state when kernel boots without any parameters. */
> -static int	audit_default;
> +u32	audit_default;

Can't figure out why you dropped the static...
I'm putting it back.

>  
>  /* If auditing cannot proceed, audit_failure selects what happens. */
> -static int	audit_failure = AUDIT_FAIL_PRINTK;
> +static u32	audit_failure = AUDIT_FAIL_PRINTK;
>  
>  /*
>   * If audit records are to be written to the netlink socket, audit_pid


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