On Fri, 2017-07-28 at 09:11 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: > On Friday, July 28, 2017 3:23:31 AM EDT Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > In the process of normalizing audit log messages, it was noticed > > that the > > AVC initialization code registered an audit log KERNEL record that > > didn't > > fit the standard format. In the process of attempting to normalize > > it it > > was determined that this record was not even necessary. Remove it. > > Actually, I'd probably go the other direction. I'd make it useful. > How about a > AUDIT_MAC_INIT record that records, name of MAC framework, status > (enabled/ > disabled), and enforcing mode (enforcing/permissive). This way if > there is an > investigation that needs to know the initial system state, we have > that > information preserved. There might be one or two other tidbits people > might > want to know like policy version or number of overrides (booleans) > deviating > from policy baseline. But I'd say that's nice to have and not > mandatory. > > I'm pretty sure that was the intent of the event and its probably to > satisfy > one of the FMT_MSA.3 common criteria requirements about initial > subject/object > security attribute association.
None of that is known in avc_init(). Aren't you already getting what you need from AUDIT_MAC_STATUS and AUDIT_MAC_POLICY_LOAD? > > -Steve > > > Ref: http://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=149614868525826&w=2 > > See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/48 > > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <r...@redhat.com> > > --- > > security/selinux/avc.c | 2 -- > > 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/security/selinux/avc.c b/security/selinux/avc.c > > index e60c79d..4b42931 100644 > > --- a/security/selinux/avc.c > > +++ b/security/selinux/avc.c > > @@ -197,8 +197,6 @@ void __init avc_init(void) > > avc_xperms_data_cachep = > > kmem_cache_create("avc_xperms_data", > > sizeof(struct > > extended_perms_data), > > 0, SLAB_PANIC, NULL); > > - > > - audit_log(current->audit_context, GFP_KERNEL, > > AUDIT_KERNEL, "AVC > > INITIALIZED\n"); } > > > > int avc_get_hash_stats(char *page) > > -- Linux-audit mailing list Linux-audit@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit