[PATCH ghak10 v8 1/2] timekeeping: Audit clock adjustments

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Mon Apr 15 22:28:09 UTC 2019


On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 5:14 AM Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Emit an audit record whenever the system clock is changed (i.e. shifted
> by a non-zero offset) by a syscall from userspace. The syscalls than can
> (at the time of writing) trigger such record are:
>   - settimeofday(2), stime(2), clock_settime(2) -- via
>     do_settimeofday64()
>   - adjtimex(2), clock_adjtime(2) -- via do_adjtimex()
>
> The new records have type AUDIT_TIME_INJOFFSET and contain the following
> fields:
>   - sec -- the 'seconds' part of the offset
>   - nsec -- the 'nanoseconds' part of the offset
>
> Example record (time was shifted backwards by ~15.875 seconds):
>
> type=TIME_INJOFFSET msg=audit(1530616049.652:13): sec=-16 nsec=124887145
>
> The records of this type will be associated with the corresponding
> syscall records.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace at redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> ---
>  include/linux/audit.h      | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  include/uapi/linux/audit.h |  1 +
>  kernel/auditsc.c           |  6 ++++++
>  kernel/time/timekeeping.c  |  6 ++++++
>  4 files changed, 27 insertions(+)

Merged into audit/next, thanks everyone.

Ondrej, please watch your line lengths, I had to break up another line
greater than 80 chars.

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paul moore
www.paul-moore.com




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