[PATCH] rtld: Reject overly long LD_AUDIT path elements

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Mon Jun 26 09:40:00 GMT 2017


On Jun 26 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 06/26/2017 10:47 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> Why do you need all that complexity?
>
> Do you mean the external iterator instead of just writing a loop?
>
> I did this so that the patch can be backported without changes.
> Otherwise, we would have to reindent the audit module process loop (or
> move it to separate function for clarity), and this will introduce a lot
> of conflicts because there have been quite a few trivial changes to the
> loop body.

That's not a good reason for overly complex code.

Andreas.

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