Re: [audit] c4dad0aab3: canonical_address#:#[##]

From: Paul Moore
Date: Sat Aug 15 2020 - 18:36:02 EST


On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 7:09 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2020-08-09 14:36, kernel test robot wrote:
> > Greeting,
> >
> > FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with clang-12):
> >
> > commit: c4dad0aab3fca0c1f0baa4cc84b6ec91b7ebf426 ("audit: tidy and extend netfilter_cfg x_tables")
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> >
> >
> > in testcase: trinity
> > with following parameters:
> >
> > runtime: 300s
> >
> > test-description: Trinity is a linux system call fuzz tester.
> > test-url: http://codemonkey.org.uk/projects/trinity/
> >
> >
> > on test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu SandyBridge -smp 2 -m 16G
> >
> > caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace):
>
> This looks odd to me. I don't see any audit involved in this and I've
> heard other complaints that this bot has appeared to mis-attribute other
> errors. I had a quick look before I went on vacation a week ago and was
> back today briefly. I'll be away until the 24th and won't be able to
> look before then.

I am just getting back to normal network access myself, but I did have
a brief exchange with Richard about this and I agree it looks a bit
odd.

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paul moore
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