[PATCH V2] audit: log module name on init_module

Richard Guy Briggs rgb at redhat.com
Tue Feb 14 19:24:32 UTC 2017


On 2017-02-14 13:43, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 1:38:36 PM EST Paul Moore wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On 2017-02-14 13:02, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > >> On Monday, February 13, 2017 4:20:55 PM EST Paul Moore wrote:
> > >> > On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com> 
> wrote:
> > >> > > This adds a new auxiliary record MODULE_INIT to the SYSCALL event.
> > >> > > 
> > >> > > We get finit_module for free since it made most sense to hook this in
> > >> > > to
> > >> > > load_module().
> > >> > > 
> > >> > > https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/7
> > >> > > https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/wiki/RFE-Module-load-reco
> > >> > > rd-fo
> > >> > > rmat
> > >> > 
> > >> > Correction for the record:
> > >> > 
> > >> > *
> > >> > https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/wiki/RFE-Module-Load-Record
> > >> > -For
> > >> > mat
> > >> > 
> > >> > [NOTE: don't resend please, I'll fix this when merging]
> > >> 
> > >> OK. Support was added to user space for this record. While doing this, I
> > >> wondered if we also get this auxiliary record when unloading a module?
> > > 
> > > I thought of that at the time, which influenced the design and wording.
> > > It is not supported yet, but that should be easier to add.
> > 
> > As a reminder, this is currently in audit/next and will be going up to
> > Linus next week during the merge window, if you want to change this
> > record in some backwards incompatible way, e.g. putting a field before
> > "name", you've got until the end of this week to figure that out.
> 
> This isn't necessary. The syscall used denotes the meaning of the action.

Yeah, that's why I moved away from "init" or "load" in the record name
or format and why an "op=" field wasn't added.

> -Steve

- RGB

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