[PATCH 2/2] audit: add filterkey to special audit messages

[Paul Moore]

On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 5:02 AM Sven Schnelle <svens at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> For automated filtering/testing it is useful to have the
> filter key logged in the message.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  kernel/auditsc.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

The SOCKETCALL record, along with all of the others generated inside
show_special(), are associated with a SYSCALL record which carries the
"key=" field.  As a general rule we try very hard not to duplicate
fields across records in a single audit event.

> diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
> index c856893041c9..2e349660a56f 100644
> --- a/kernel/auditsc.c
> +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
> @@ -1508,6 +1508,7 @@ static void show_special(struct audit_context *context, int *call_panic)
>                 audit_log_time(context, &ab);
>                 break;
>         }
> +       audit_log_key(ab, context->filterkey);
>         audit_log_end(ab);
>  }
>
> --
> 2.32.0

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