[RFC PATCH] audit: force seccomp event logging to honor the audit_enabled flag

Paul Moore pmoore at redhat.com
Tue Nov 24 18:57:35 UTC 2015


On Monday, November 23, 2015 05:35:58 PM Paul Moore wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Tony Jones <tonyj at suse.de> wrote:
> > On 11/23/2015 02:20 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> >> Previously we were emitting seccomp audit records regardless of the
> >> audit_enabled setting, a deparature from the rest of audit.  This
> >> patch makes seccomp auditing consistent with the rest of the audit
> >> record generation code in that when audit_enabled=0 nothing is logged
> >> by the audit subsystem.
> >> 
> >> The bulk of this patch is moving the CONFIG_AUDIT block ahead of the
> >> CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL block in include/linux/audit.h; the only real
> >> code change was in the audit_seccomp() definition.
> >> 
> >> Reported-by: Tony Jones <tonyj at suse.de>
> >> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Seems pretty much the same (functionally) as the patch I posted to audit
> > list on 10/12/2015 except that didn't hoist the entire block.
> 
> Yep, I prefered to move the block as I think it should have been that
> way anyway from the start.  IMHO we got to many audit Kconfig knobs
> as-is and splitting that block for just the audit_enabled flag made
> things worse.
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj at suse.de>

I just merged this patch into audit#next, the only change is I replaced the 
"Reported-by" for Tony with his sign-off.

-- 
paul moore
security @ redhat




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