Latest kernel (2356), avc's on hwclock

[Tom London]

On 7/7/06, Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher at comcast.net> wrote:
> Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > Looks like the Fedora hwclock is instrumented to generate an audit
> > record, but policy doesn't yet allow it to do so.  These capability
> > checks used to be silent (no auditing) since they occur on netlink recv,
> > but a recent patch has enabled SELinux to generate audit messages on the
> > netlink recv capability checks.  So we can expect these types of denials
> > to show up now.  Should be allowed in this case.
>
> So it's generating an audit message, because it wasn't allowed to
> generate an audit message?
>
> I've only had half a beer...
>
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> Ian Pilcher                                        i.pilcher at comcast.net
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A slight side question:

hwclock seems to be producing audit messages either before or after
auditd has started/exited. I see a message on shutdown, but it appears
not to be logged anywhere.

Does that meet auditing requirements?

tom
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Tom London