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Bug 475145

Summary: audit: increase the maximum length of the key field
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Alexander Viro <aviro>
Component: kernelAssignee: Alexander Viro <aviro>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Priority: low    
Version: 5.4CC: qcai, sgrubb
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Description Alexander Viro 2008-12-08 07:16:57 UTC
Key lengths were arbitrarily limited to 32 characters.  If userspace is going to start using the single kernel key field as multiple virtual key fields (example key=key1,key2,key3,key4) we should give them enough room to work.

Mainline kernel has that limit raised to 255; we need that change in rhel5.4
(upstream patch applies verbatim).

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2009-01-27 20:38:32 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2009-02-16 15:45:39 UTC
Updating PM score.

Comment 3 Don Zickus 2009-02-23 20:03:00 UTC
in kernel-2.6.18-132.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5

Please do NOT transition this bugzilla state to VERIFIED until our QE team
has sent specific instructions indicating when to do so.  However feel free
to provide a comment indicating that this fix has been verified.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 08:54:06 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1243.html