Re: [PATCH ghak90 V6 00/10] audit: implement container identifier

Neil Horman
2019-04-23T10:28:21Z

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 09:49:05AM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 7:38 AM Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 11:39:07PM -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > > Implement kernel audit container identifier.
> >
> > I'm sorry, I've lost track of this, where have we landed on it? Are we good for
> > inclusion?
>
> I haven't finished going through this latest revision, but unless
> Richard made any significant changes outside of the feedback from the
> v5 patchset I'm guessing we are "close".
>
> Based on discussions Richard and I had some time ago, I have always
> envisioned the plan as being get the kernel patchset, tests, docs
> ready (which Richard has been doing) and then run the actual
> implemented API by the userland container folks, e.g. cri-o/lxc/etc.,
> to make sure the actual implementation is sane from their perspective.
> They've already seen the design, so I'm not expecting any real
> surprises here, but sometimes opinions change when they have actual
> code in front of them to play with and review.
>
> Beyond that, while the cri-o/lxc/etc. folks are looking it over,
> whatever additional testing we can do would be a big win. I'm
> thinking I'll pull it into a separate branch in the audit tree
> (audit/working-container ?) and include that in my secnext kernels
> that I build/test on a regular basis; this is also a handy way to keep
> it based against the current audit/next branch. If any changes are
> needed Richard can either chose to base those changes on audit/next or
> the separate audit container ID branch; that's up to him. I've done
> this with other big changes in other trees, e.g. SELinux, and it has
> worked well to get some extra testing in and keep the patchset "merge
> ready" while others outside the subsystem look things over.
>

That all sounds good, thank you Paul. I knew you and Richard were working on
it, but I somehow managed to loose track of exactly where we left this.

Much Appreciated
Neil

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