Bug 206425 – LTC26969-[LSPP Audit] Filtering on PPID for = and != is inverted

Bug 206425 - (LSPP/IBM) LTC26969-[LSPP Audit] Filtering on PPID for = and != is inverted

Summary:	LTC26969-[LSPP Audit] Filtering on PPID for = and != is inverted

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

Aliases:	LSPP/IBM

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Eric Paris
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2006-09-14 07:26 EDT by Issue Tracker
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:07 EST (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	5.0.0
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Last Closed:	2006-11-17 09:47:52 EST
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Patch sent to linux-audit for review (462 bytes, patch) 2006-09-27 22:13 EDT, Eric Paris	no flags	Details \| Diff
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Description Issue Tracker 2006-09-14 07:26:29 EDT

Escalated to Bugzilla from IssueTracker

Comment 3 Eric Paris 2006-09-27 20:55:25 EDT

It's not exactly backwards.  It's actually that ctx->ppid in audit_filter_rules
is actually set to 0.  That is supposed to be the ppid of the task which made
the call.  (I'm not sure why i couldn't just use sys_getppid() there, but i'm
going to figure out why this isn't set.

Comment 4 Eric Paris 2006-09-27 22:13:15 EDT

Created attachment 137281 [details]
Patch sent to linux-audit for review

Comment 5 Linda Wang 2006-09-29 14:34:05 EDT

patch posted for review on 9/29/06

Comment 6 Don Zickus 2006-10-09 17:43:30 EDT

in kernel-2.6.18-1.2718.el5

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