[RFC] audit support for BPF notification
Steve Grubb
sgrubb at redhat.com
Fri Aug 9 17:45:21 UTC 2019
Hello,
On Friday, August 9, 2019 10:18:31 AM EDT Jiri Olsa wrote:
> I posted initial change that allows auditd to log BPF program
> load/unload events, it's in here:
> https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/pull/104
Thanks for the patch...but we probably should have talked a bit more before
undertaking this effort. We normally do not audit from user space what happens
in the kernel. Doing this can be racy and it keeps auditd from doing the one
job it has - which is to grab events and record them to disk and send them
out the realtime interface.
> We tried to push pure AUDIT interface for BPF program notification,
> but it was denied, the discussion is in here:
> https://marc.info/?t=153866123200003&r=1&w=2
Hmm. The email I remember was here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2018-October/msg00053.html
and was only 2 emails long with no answer to my question. :-)
> The outcome of the discussion was to use perf event interface
> for BPF notification and use it in some deamon.. audit was our
> first choice.
>
> thoughts?
I'd like to understand what the basic problem is that needs to be solved.
-Steve
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