[PATCH] (1/2) new audit filter allows excluding messages by type (kernel)

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Thu Nov 3 14:39:42 UTC 2005


On Thursday 03 November 2005 08:58, Amy Griffis wrote:
> What about someone running a kernel without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL?  With
> this implementation, they wouldn't be able to use this filtering at
> all.  That doesn't make any sense, since filtering audit record types
> is inherently unrelated to syscalls.  This filtering applies to audit
> in general, so it should live entirely in audit.c.  

It might be tricky to untangle. I think it uses functions that only live in 
that file. I think its worth looking into, though.

-Steve




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