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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Question about max syscall number
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 15:46:11 -0400
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To: chuli <chul@cn.fujitsu.com>
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On Wednesday 30 July 2008 23:18:15 chuli wrote:
> =C2=A0 When I use "auditctl -a exit,always -S 2015" in x86 system, this=
 rule can
> be added. But I thought it would report error since there is not such
> syscall number "1000" in x86, the max is 318.=20

We allow this because its possible that someone could write a kernel modu=
le=20
(maybe not in Linus tree)  that adds syscall numbers. While we wouldn't h=
ave=20
a text interpretation for what it means, we thought that if this occurs t=
hat=20
we would like to allow people to audit these new syscalls if they existed=
.=20
Its otherwise harmless if you don't consider the performance hit.

-Steve