[PATCH 1/1] audit: Make AUDIT_KERNEL event conform to the specification

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Fri Dec 2 20:46:39 UTC 2016


On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote:
> The AUDIT_KERNEL event is not following name=value format. This causes
> some information to get lost. The event has been reformatted to follow
> the convention. Additionally the audit_enabled value was added for
> troubleshooting purposes. The following is an example of the new event:
>
> type=KERNEL audit(1480621249.833:1): state=initialized audit_enabled=0 res=1
>
> Signed-off-by: sgrubb <sgrubb at redhat.com>
> ---
>  kernel/audit.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Looks reasonable.  I fixed your name (sgrubb -> Steve Grubb) and
merged this into my next queue for after the upcoming merge window.

> diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
> index 910a7c1..91860d4 100644
> --- a/kernel/audit.c
> +++ b/kernel/audit.c
> @@ -1252,7 +1252,9 @@ static int __init audit_init(void)
>         audit_enabled = audit_default;
>         audit_ever_enabled |= !!audit_default;
>
> -       audit_log(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_KERNEL, "initialized");
> +       audit_log(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_KERNEL,
> +               "state=initialized audit_enabled=%u res=1",
> +                audit_enabled);
>
>         for (i = 0; i < AUDIT_INODE_BUCKETS; i++)
>                 INIT_LIST_HEAD(&audit_inode_hash[i]);
> --
> 2.7.4
>
>
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