Commit 5f4b9755 authored Feb 26, 2019 by Denis Efremov Committed by James Morris Mar 26, 2019

LSM: fix documentation for the syslog hook



The syslog hook was changed in the commit
"capabilities/syslog: open code cap_syslog logic to
fix build failure" (12b3052c). The argument @from_file
was removed from the hook. This patch updates the
documentation for the syslog hook accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@ispras.ru>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>

parent 733e4467

include/linux/lsm_hooks.h

+1 −2

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		@@ -1291,8 +1291,7 @@
		* Check permission before accessing the kernel message ring or changing
		* logging to the console.
		* See the syslog(2) manual page for an explanation of the @type values.
		* @type contains the type of action.
		* @from_file indicates the context of action (if it came from /proc).
		* @type contains the SYSLOG_ACTION_* constant from <include/linux/syslog.h>
		* Return 0 if permission is granted.
		* @settime:
		* Check permission to change the system time.

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