Re: Checking for audit_enabled in the kernel

Paul Moore
2006-11-14T20:57:23Z

Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 November 2006 12:48, Paul Moore wrote:
>
>>I'm trying to find a way to quickly determine if auditing is enabled and it
>>looks like the only real way to do that is to declare audit_enabled as an
>>extern and check the variable directly. Is there some interface for this
>>that I am missing?
>
> A good example of how to do this is in audit.h:
>
> static inline int audit_ipc_obj(struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp)
> {
> if (unlikely(!audit_dummy_context()))
> return __audit_ipc_obj(ipcp);
> return 0;
> }
>
> __audit_ipc_obj is the real function that does the actual work. The
> audit_dummy_context() function uses current, so it may not be suitable to use
> on events that come from netlink. In that case, we'd need a new function that
> takes a task struct.

>From what I can tell audit_dummy_context() is really only useful in detecting if
syscall auditing is enabled (it always returns true if CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is
not checked at compile time) and not audit in general. I'm pretty sure I want
something that depends on audit in general and not just syscall auditing.

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paul moore
linux security @ hp