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Commit 780a7654 authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman Committed by Eric Paris
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audit: Make testing for a valid loginuid explicit.

audit rule additions containing "-F auid!=4294967295" were failing
with EINVAL because of a regression caused by e1760bd5

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Apparently some userland audit rule sets want to know if loginuid uid
has been set and are using a test for auid != 4294967295 to determine
that.

In practice that is a horrible way to ask if a value has been set,
because it relies on subtle implementation details and will break
every time the uid implementation in the kernel changes.

So add a clean way to test if the audit loginuid has been set, and
silently convert the old idiom to the cleaner and more comprehensible
new idiom.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.7
Reported-By: default avatarRichard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Tested-by: default avatarRichard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
parent b24a30a7
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