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authorPaul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>2009-09-23 13:46:00 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2009-09-24 03:50:26 -0400
commitd81165919ebf6e1cb9eeb612150f9287ad414659 (patch)
tree25b205e22ec1182e6a92f77381b58a5b09972f7f /security/lsm_audit.c
parent939cbf260c1abce6cad4b95ea4ba9f5132b660b3 (diff)
downloadlinux-d81165919ebf6e1cb9eeb612150f9287ad414659.tar.gz
lsm: Use a compressed IPv6 string format in audit events
Currently the audit subsystem prints uncompressed IPv6 addresses which not
only differs from common usage but also results in ridiculously large audit
strings which is not a good thing.  This patch fixes this by simply converting
audit to always print compressed IPv6 addresses.

Old message example:

 audit(1253576792.161:30): avc:  denied  { ingress } for
  saddr=0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001 src=5000
  daddr=0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001 dest=35502 netif=lo
  scontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s15:c0.c1023
  tcontext=system_u:object_r:lo_netif_t:s0-s15:c0.c1023 tclass=netif

New message example:

 audit(1253576792.161:30): avc:  denied  { ingress } for
  saddr=::1 src=5000 daddr=::1 dest=35502 netif=lo
  scontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s15:c0.c1023
  tcontext=system_u:object_r:lo_netif_t:s0-s15:c0.c1023 tclass=netif

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/lsm_audit.c')
-rw-r--r--security/lsm_audit.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/security/lsm_audit.c b/security/lsm_audit.c
index 500aad0ebd6a..3bb90b6f1dd3 100644
--- a/security/lsm_audit.c
+++ b/security/lsm_audit.c
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ static inline void print_ipv6_addr(struct audit_buffer *ab,
 				   char *name1, char *name2)
 {
 	if (!ipv6_addr_any(addr))
-		audit_log_format(ab, " %s=%pI6", name1, addr);
+		audit_log_format(ab, " %s=%pI6c", name1, addr);
 	if (port)
 		audit_log_format(ab, " %s=%d", name2, ntohs(port));
 }