[PATCH] TaskTracker : Simplified thread information tracker.

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel at I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Sun Jan 4 11:50:49 UTC 2015


Hello.

Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > > On 14/09/28, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > > (Q2) Does auxiliary record work with only type=SYSCALL case?
> > > 
> > > Auxiliary records don't work with AUDIT_LOGIN because that record has a
> > > NULL context.  Similarly for core dumps (AUDIT_ANOM_ABEND), AUDIT_SECCOMP,
> > > configuration changes (AUDIT_CONFIG_CHANGE, AUDIT_FEATURE_CHANGE), most
> > > (all?) AUDIT_USER_* messages.
> > > 
> > I see, thank you.
> > 
> > Although I feel that, from the point of view of troubleshooting, emitting
> > history of thread's comm name into NULL-context records would help sysadmin
> > to map login session and operations a user did from that login session,
> > I'm OK with starting history of thread's comm name as auxiliary records
> > (i.e. not emitted into NULL-context records).
> > 
> > Adding LKML for reviewers. What else can I do for merging this patch?
> 
> I'm willing to take it with some reflection and no significant
> objections, in particular from userspace audit.  I'll have a closer look
> at it.
> 
Any comments on this patch?




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