Why there is no PATH record for change file time syscalls ?(utimensat)

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Thu Sep 7 22:32:39 UTC 2017


On Wednesday, September 6, 2017 6:03:18 AM EDT Lev Olshvang wrote:
> I got only following SYSCALL record in audit log for 'touch -t ' command, no
> CWD, no PATH record

Out of curiosity, what kind of rule were you using?

> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1503837757.149:266995):
> arch=c000003e syscall=280 success=yes exit=0 a0=0 a1=0 a2=7fffbb26bb10 a3=0
> items=0 ppid=101 pid=102 auid=1000 uid=0 gid=31 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0
> egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts4 ses=1 comm="touch" exe="/bin/touch"
> key="times" 

I think you found a problem. I also think the syscall should be added to:

include/asm-generic/audit_change_attr.h

I think this syscall and others have been added since the watch permissions 
files were setup.

-Steve




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