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

Richard Guy Briggs rgb at redhat.com
Fri Sep 8 08:41:47 UTC 2017


On 2017-09-07 18:32, Steve Grubb wrote:
> 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

Steve, my naive addition of utime, utimes, futimesat and utimensat to
include/asm-generic/audit_change_attr.h seems to have made no
difference.

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

- RGB

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