On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Dave Jones <da...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Following on from the previous patch that fixed an oops, these
> are all the other similar code patterns in the tree with the same
> checks added.  I never saw these causing problems, but checking
> this everywhere seems to make more sense than every subsequent
> routine that gets passed 'ab' having to check it.
>
> Later we could remove all those same checks from audit_log_format
> and friends. For now, this just prevents similar bugs being introduced
> as the one in my previous patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <da...@redhat.com>

Not certain because I haven't looked at what happens with the error
code, but I think this might not be right.  auditd can be explictly
told not to audit certain events, in which case it is normal and
expected that ab would come back NULL....
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