[PATCH ghak81 RFC V2 5/5] audit: collect audit task parameters

[Paul Moore]

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 9:20 PM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 2018-05-14 17:54, Paul Moore wrote:
>> On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 9:58 PM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > The audit-related parameters in struct task_struct should ideally be
>> > collected together and accessed through a standard audit API.
>> >
>> > Collect the existing loginuid, sessionid and audit_context together in a
>> > new struct audit_task_info called "audit" in struct task_struct.
>> >
>> > See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/81
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com>
>> > ---
>> >  MAINTAINERS                |  2 +-
>> >  include/linux/audit.h      | 10 +++++-----
>> >  include/linux/audit_task.h | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >  include/linux/sched.h      |  6 ++----
>> >  init/init_task.c           |  7 +++++--
>> >  kernel/auditsc.c           |  6 +++---
>> >  6 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>> >  create mode 100644 include/linux/audit_task.h
>>
>> I'm not going to merge this right now; there is still the question of
>> static vs dynamic (as mentioned in 0/5) and with the main motivation
>> being the audit container ID work, I think it would be good to wait
>> for the next round of those patches before committing to something.
>
> Agreed.  I included it for completeness...

That's what I figured based on the cover letter, and the RFC tag, I
just felt a comment making things clear would be helpful.

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paul moore
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