[PATCH] audit: always enable syscall auditing when supported and audit is enabled

[Paul Moore]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 4:04 AM Sverdlin, Alexander (Nokia - DE/Ulm)
<alexander.sverdlin at nokia.com> wrote:
> Hello Paul,
>
> On 08/12/2015 17:42, Paul Moore wrote:
> > To the best of our knowledge, everyone who enables audit at compile
> > time also enables syscall auditing; this patch simplifies the Kconfig
> > menus by removing the option to disable syscall auditing when audit
> > is selected and the target arch supports it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore at redhat.com>
>
> this patch is responsible for massive performance degradation for those
> who used only CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR.
>
> And the numbers are, take the following test for instance:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=2M
>
> ARM64:      500MB/s -> 350MB/s
> ARM:        400MB/s -> 300MB/s

Hi there.

Out of curiosity, what kernel/distribution are you running, or is this
a custom kernel compile?  Can you also share the output of 'auditctl
-l' from your system?  The general approach taken by everyone to
turn-off the per-syscall audit overhead is to add the "-a never,task"
rule to their audit configuration:

 # auditctl -a never,task

If you are using Fedora/CentOS/RHEL, or a similarly configured system,
you can find this configuration in the /etc/audit/audit.rules file (be
warned, that file is automatically generated based on
/etc/audit/rules.d).

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com