From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Neukum Subject: Re: [RFC] Create an audit record of USB specific details Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:02:48 +0200 Message-ID: <1459875768.2892.1.camel@suse.com> References: <1459742562-22803-1-git-send-email-wmail@redhat.com> <1459752519.24025.5.camel@suse.com> <87bn5pzuh1.fsf@nemi.mork.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Wade Mealing Cc: bjorn@mork.no, linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb List-Id: linux-audit@redhat.com On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 18:40 +1000, Wade Mealing wrote: > Consider the following scenario. Currently we have device drivers > that emit text via a printk request which is eventually picked up by > syslog like implementation (not the audit subsystem). We also have UEVENTs. The crucial question is why udevd feeding back events to the audit subsystem is inferior to the kernel itself generating audit events. Regards Oliver