On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:28 AM, Jiri Kosina <ji...@kernel.org> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >> > Yes...I wished I was in on the beginning of this discussion. Here's the >> > problem. We need all tasks auditable unless specifically dismissed as >> > uninteresting. This would be a task,never rule. >> > >> > The way we look at it, is if it boots with audit=1, then we know auditd >> > is expected to run at some point. So, we need all tasks to stay >> > auditable. If they weren't and auditd enabled auditing, then we'd need >> > to walk the whole proctable and stab TIF_AUDIT_SYSCALL into every >> > process in the system. It was decided that this is too ugly. >> >> When was that decided? That's what this patch does. > > I'd like to see some more justification as well. > > Namely, if I compare "setting TIF_AUDIT_SYSCALL for every process on a > need-to-be-so basis" to "we always go through the slow path and > pessimistically assume that audit is enabled and has reasonable ruleset > loaded", I have my own (different) opinion of what is too ugly.
Me too. That being said, on re-review of my old code, I think that audit_dec_n_rules() may be the wrong approach. It may be better to leave TIF_AUDIT_SYSCALL set but to make the audit code itself clear the flag the next time through. That way we don't end up with a partially filled in syscall audit record that never gets consumed if we clear TIF_AUDIT_SYSCALL in the middle of a syscall. -- Linux-audit mailing list Linux-audit@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit