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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/auditsc.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c index 89335723fb2..287b3d38117 100644 --- a/kernel/auditsc.c +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c @@ -1877,12 +1877,18 @@ void __audit_inode(struct filename *name, const struct dentry *dentry, } out_alloc: - /* unable to find the name from a previous getname(). Allocate a new - * anonymous entry. - */ - n = audit_alloc_name(context, AUDIT_TYPE_NORMAL); + /* unable to find an entry with both a matching name and type */ + n = audit_alloc_name(context, AUDIT_TYPE_UNKNOWN); if (!n) return; + if (name) + /* since name is not NULL we know there is already a matching + * name record, see audit_getname(), so there must be a type + * mismatch; reuse the string path since the original name + * record will keep the string valid until we free it in + * audit_free_names() */ + n->name = name; + out: if (parent) { n->name_len = n->name ? parent_len(n->name->name) : AUDIT_NAME_FULL; |