[PATCH V3fix ghak120] audit: initialize context values in case of mandatory events

[Paul Moore]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 10:01 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 2020-07-28 14:47, Paul Moore wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 12:27 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > I know you like only really minimal fixes this late, but this seemed
> > > pretty minimal to me...
> >
> > Minimal is a one (two?) line NULL check in audit_log_name(), this
> > patch is not that.
>
> I didn't try and test that since I'm not sure that would have worked
> because there appeared to be a low non-NULL value in it.  brauer1's trace had
> 0x60 and mine had 0xd0.  Or am I missing something obvious?

Well, you mentioned the obvious already: both 0x60 and 0xd0 are not
NULL.  We already have a NULL check for context->pwd elsewhere so
there is precedence for this solving a similar problem, although
without going through the git log I'm not sure what problem that
solved, or if it was precautionary.

I agree the low value looks suspicious, it almost looks like an offset
to me, ideally it would be good to understand how/why that value is
"off'.  It could be that the audit_context is not being properly
initialized, reset, or something unrelated is clobbering the value;
all things that would be nice to know.

> The patch provided the information rather than ignoring the problem ...

I disagree.

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