Re: [PATCH] audit: convert status version to a feature bitmap

Paul Moore
2014-11-17T16:09:08Z

On Friday, November 14, 2014 10:32:51 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 14/11/13, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > On Thursday, November 13, 2014 08:08:52 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > > > So what terrible things happen to userspace if
> > > > AUDIT_VERSION_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME becomes 0x03 instead of 0x02?
> > >
> > > But it won't. It gets the value of
> > > AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME, which is 0x00000002.
> > >
> > > I think you meant to ask about AUDIT_VERSION_LATEST, which would become
> > > 3.
> > >
> > > You *did* already ask that question in a previous thread, and there
> > > didn't seem to be a concern. Steve Grubb could likely answer this
> > > question better than me.
> >
> > The audit 2.4.1 package has been pushed to everything from F20 -> rawhide.
> > If you don't see any problems, then its safe. But check carefully around
> > the things that you did change. Right now, we only are caring about only
> > one kernel feature, --loginuid-immutable. Check that it still works,
> > auditctl -s.
> Here's my output, which I assume looks sane:
>
> [root@f20 ~]# rpm -q audit
> audit-2.4.1-1.fc20.x86_64
> [root@f20 ~]# auditctl -s
> enabled 1
> flag 1
> pid 307
> rate_limit 0
> backlog_limit 320
> lost 0
> backlog 0
> backlog_wait_time 60000
> loginuid_immutable 0 unlocked

Looks like good output to me, Steve?

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paul moore
security and virtualization @ redhat