Re: [PATCH] audit: use ktime_get_coarse_ts64() for time access

From: Richard Guy Briggs
Date: Fri Jun 22 2018 - 16:26:30 EST


On 2018-06-18 16:58, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The API got renamed for consistency with the other time accessors,
> this changes the audit caller as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

This looks reasonable to me.
Not that I think it matters, but any reason it was swapped in a
different code location other than aesthetics? Time and serial are
usually used together in our code.

Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> kernel/audit.c | 2 +-
> kernel/auditsc.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
> index e7478cb58079..3e34b9f03cfe 100644
> --- a/kernel/audit.c
> +++ b/kernel/audit.c
> @@ -1724,7 +1724,7 @@ static inline void audit_get_stamp(struct audit_context *ctx,
> struct timespec64 *t, unsigned int *serial)
> {
> if (!ctx || !auditsc_get_stamp(ctx, t, serial)) {
> - *t = current_kernel_time64();
> + ktime_get_coarse_ts64(t);
> *serial = audit_serial();
> }
> }
> diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
> index ceb1c4596c51..dbbf02f513a8 100644
> --- a/kernel/auditsc.c
> +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
> @@ -1540,10 +1540,10 @@ void __audit_syscall_entry(int major, unsigned long a1, unsigned long a2,
> context->argv[2] = a3;
> context->argv[3] = a4;
> context->serial = 0;
> - context->ctime = current_kernel_time64();
> context->in_syscall = 1;
> context->current_state = state;
> context->ppid = 0;
> + ktime_get_coarse_ts64(&context->ctime);
> }
>
> /**
> --
> 2.9.0
>

- RGB

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