[PATCH v3.4] - Updates on cmdline auditing patches

William Roberts bill.c.roberts at gmail.com
Tue Nov 19 19:41:01 UTC 2013


Patch 1 - Remains the same
Patch 2 - Updated the cache to use char* over unsigned long, but it still
          caches a page
Patch 3 - Refactored the proc code, and the cache now uses kmalloc. Not sure if the new
          refactored functions belong in base.c. They take a tas struct, so I am thinking
          they should be relocated? Anyone have any thoughts on to where?

Patch 3 significantly droped the memory usage (before each got would have been 4096):
<snip>
<3>[   27.891815] BILL req: 59 got: 64
<3>[   27.897277] BILL req: 60 got: 64
<3>[   27.902404] BILL req: 57 got: 64
<3>[   27.907714] BILL req: 58 got: 64
<3>[   27.912994] BILL req: 83 got: 128
<3>[   27.918273] BILL req: 84 got: 128
<3>[   27.923675] BILL req: 90 got: 128
<3>[   27.929351] BILL req: 91 got: 128
<3>[   27.939270] BILL req: 33 got: 64
<3>[   27.944671] BILL req: 34 got: 64
<3>[   27.951721] BILL req: 34 got: 64
<3>[   27.958251] BILL req: 35 got: 64
<3>[   27.963714] BILL req: 35 got: 64
<3>[   27.969085] BILL req: 36 got: 64
<3>[   27.989868] BILL req: 89 got: 128
<3>[   27.995758] BILL req: 90 got: 128
<3>[   28.001861] BILL req: 90 got: 128
<3>[   28.007385] BILL req: 91 got: 128
<3>[   28.019226] BILL req: 33 got: 64
<3>[   28.029449] BILL req: 34 got: 64
<3>[   28.034515] BILL req: 34 got: 64
<3>[   28.039581] BILL req: 35 got: 64
<3>[   28.044708] BILL req: 35 got: 64
<3>[   28.049804] BILL req: 36 got: 64
<3>[   31.352050] BILL req: 76 got: 128

Assuming they all stayed resident in the audit context

Total before:
102400

Total after:
2176

98% reduction in memory usage.

[PATCH 1/3] audit: Allow auditing of proc/self/cmdline value
[PATCH 2/3] audit: Enable cacheing of cmdline in audit_context
[PATCH 3/3] audit: dont allocate whole pages




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