[PATCH] (1/2) new audit filter allows excluding messages by type (kernel)

Timothy R. Chavez tinytim at us.ibm.com
Thu Nov 3 16:30:16 UTC 2005


On Thursday 03 November 2005 08:39, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Thursday 03 November 2005 08:58, Amy Griffis wrote:
> > What about someone running a kernel without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL?  With
> > this implementation, they wouldn't be able to use this filtering at
> > all.  That doesn't make any sense, since filtering audit record types
> > is inherently unrelated to syscalls.  This filtering applies to audit
> > in general, so it should live entirely in audit.c.  
> 
> It might be tricky to untangle. I think it uses functions that only live in 
> that file. I think its worth looking into, though.
> 
> -Steve
> 

This shortcoming also appears with user message filtering.  Right?

-tim




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