[Part1 PATCH 00/22] Add namespace support for audit

Aristeu Rozanski aris at redhat.com
Wed Jun 19 20:49:27 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 09:53:32AM +0800, Gao feng wrote:
> This patchset is first part of namespace support for audit.
> in this patchset, the mainly resources of audit system have
> been isolated. the audit filter, rules havn't been isolated
> now. It will be implemented in Part2. We finished the isolation
> of user audit message in this patchset.
> 
> I choose to assign audit to the user namespace.
> Right now,there are six kinds of namespaces, such as
> net, mount, ipc, pid, uts and user. the first five
> namespaces have special usage. the audit isn't suitable to
> belong to these five namespaces, And since the flag of system
> call clone is in short supply, we can't provide a new flag such
> as CLONE_NEWAUDIT to enable audit namespace separately. so the
> user namespace may be the best choice.

I thought it was said on the last submission that to tie userns and
audit namespace would be a bad idea?

-- 
Aristeu




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