Re: [PATCH V4 0/4] audit by executable name

[Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>]

On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 12:32:33 AM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 14/09/08, Eric Paris wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 14:53 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > > On Sunday, August 24, 2014 06:34:04 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > > > This is a part of Peter Moody, my and Eric Paris' work to implement
> > > > audit by executable name.
> > > 
> > > So, what's the status on this? Is it scheduled for the next upstream
> > > kernel? This is a feature that's been missing for a long time. Many
> > > people will find this useful.
> > > 
> > > Also, has anyone beside Richard been testing this?
> > 
> > I tested it when I wrote it.  But don't know about this patch series.
> > Is that worth anything?   :)
> 
> Do you still have the test procedure and the results?

The way that we tested other features being added to the kernel was to set up 
looping shell script that stress the system. Some thing similar for this 
addition would:

add the rule, sleep, delete the rule
list the rule, sleep, list the rules, list the rules
start the app, sleep, term the app

All 3 scripts would loop over and over for hours simultaneously. The idea is 
to provoke a race between inserting/deleting/listing rules and actually 
recording an event. You are looking for an oops, livelock, deadlock, or some 
other noticeable problem. I think Al would let something like this run over 
night before trusting it. The idea is to provoke problems that would affect 
normal operation.

-Steve