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From: Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Audit <linux-audit@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Abnormal End of Processes
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:06:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070418200610.GA25344@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704181209.50302.sgrubb@redhat.com>

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been working on some code that detects abnormal events based on 
> audit system events. One kind of event that we currently have no visibility for is
> when a program terminates due to segfault - which should never happen on a
> production machine. And if it did, you'd want to investigate it. Attached is a
> patch that collects these events and sends them into the audit system.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>

I'd suggest taking that into a separate function somewhere in kernel/audit*.c;
no need to clutter fs/exec.c with it.  Leave if (unlikely(audit_enabled)) in
inlined wrapper as usual, pass signr as argument...

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-18 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-18 16:09 Abnormal End of Processes Steve Grubb
2007-04-18 16:47 ` James Antill
2007-04-18 17:27   ` Steve Grubb
2007-04-18 20:06 ` Alexander Viro [this message]

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