AUDIT_NETFILTER_PKT message format

[Richard Guy Briggs]

On 2017-02-16 20:57, Paul Moore wrote:
> [NOTE: I'll respond back to the other part of your email later but I'm
> running out of time in the day and this was a quick but important
> response]
> 
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Steve has requested the subject attributes which prefixes 7 fields.
> 
> I already commented on this earlier in this thread - or some other
> related thread, I've lost track, but both you and Steve were on the
> To/CC line - last time I checked, you can't reliably link packets to
> the sender/subject in the netfilter hooks (I'll be shocked if this has
> changed).  The best you can do in some cases is to link the packet to
> the socket, and that isn't going to help you.

Ok, thanks for this clarification.  Maybe I'm mis-remembering what user
information is available in software interrupts rather than user
context.  This will need more investigation...

> paul moore

- RGB

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