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From: LC Bruzenak <lenny@magitekltd.com>
To: "Miloslav Trmač" <mitr@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit <linux-audit@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Handle timestamp 0.0 in auparse, was Re: audit-viewer help needed
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:04:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1222131883.6513.92.camel@homeserver> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1222131479.2685.92.camel@amilo>


On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 02:57 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> LC Bruzenak píše v Po 22. 09. 2008 v 19:38 -0500:
> > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 23:30 +0000, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
...
> 
> I think I can see what's going on.  Those are kernel threads; when they
> are created, an audit context is created and zeroed.  The timestamp is
> set on system call entry in ordinary threads, but there is no system
> call entry in kernel threads, so the original zero timestamp is used in
> all audit records related to kernel threads.
> 
> I'm not sure how to fix it, though.  Perhaps identify "operation start"
> points in kernel threads, and update the timestamps in their audit
> contexts at that time?
> 	Mirek
> 

OK; excellent summary!

The bad thing IMO is that ausearch doesn't show these records.
It just drops them (and exits with exit value = 1).

LCB.

-- 
LC (Lenny) Bruzenak
lenny@magitekltd.com

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-23  1:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-19  0:02 audit-viewer help needed LC Bruzenak
     [not found] ` <1221812917.2947.10.camel@amilo>
     [not found]   ` <1221830658.6513.4.camel@homeserver>
2008-09-22 23:30     ` [PATCH] Handle timestamp 0.0 in auparse, was " Miloslav Trmač
2008-09-23  0:38       ` LC Bruzenak
2008-09-23  0:57         ` Miloslav Trmač
2008-09-23  1:04           ` LC Bruzenak [this message]
2008-10-18 15:51           ` Steve Grubb
2008-11-07 20:19       ` LC Bruzenak
2009-01-07 15:17         ` Account Lockouts Starr-Renee Corbin
2009-01-07 15:25           ` Steve Grubb

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