[RFC PATCH] audit: force seccomp event logging to honor the audit_enabled flag

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Mon Nov 23 22:35:58 UTC 2015


On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Tony Jones <tonyj at suse.de> wrote:
> On 11/23/2015 02:20 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
>> Previously we were emitting seccomp audit records regardless of the
>> audit_enabled setting, a deparature from the rest of audit.  This
>> patch makes seccomp auditing consistent with the rest of the audit
>> record generation code in that when audit_enabled=0 nothing is logged
>> by the audit subsystem.
>>
>> The bulk of this patch is moving the CONFIG_AUDIT block ahead of the
>> CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL block in include/linux/audit.h; the only real
>> code change was in the audit_seccomp() definition.
>>
>> Reported-by: Tony Jones <tonyj at suse.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore at redhat.com>
>
> Seems pretty much the same (functionally) as the patch I posted to audit
> list on 10/12/2015 except that didn't hoist the entire block.

Yep, I prefered to move the block as I think it should have been that
way anyway from the start.  IMHO we got to many audit Kconfig knobs
as-is and splitting that block for just the audit_enabled flag made
things worse.

> Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj at suse.de>

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