Re: [PATCH V5] audit: use macros for unset inode and device values

From: Paul Moore
Date: Wed Aug 05 2015 - 17:53:42 EST


On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 04:19:09 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> Clean up a number of places were casted magic numbers are used to represent
> unset inode and device numbers in preparation for the audit by executable
> path patch set.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v5: Move macros from include/uapi/linux/audit.h to include/linux/audit.h
> Use "unsigned int" rather than bare "unsigned".
>
> include/linux/audit.h | 3 +++
> kernel/audit.c | 2 +-
> kernel/audit_watch.c | 8 ++++----
> kernel/auditsc.c | 6 +++---
> 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/audit.h b/include/linux/audit.h
> index c2e7e3a..48ae90c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/audit.h
> +++ b/include/linux/audit.h
> @@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
> #include <linux/ptrace.h>
> #include <uapi/linux/audit.h>
>
> +#define AUDIT_INO_UNSET (unsigned long)-1
> +#define AUDIT_DEV_UNSET (unsigned int)-1

I suspect it was lost in the noise when I mentioned it on v4, but how about
changing AUDIT_DEV_UNSET to "(dev_t)-1"?

--
paul moore
security @ redhat

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