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From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Should audit_seccomp check audit_enabled?
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 15:13:01 -0400
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On 15/10/23, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> I would argue that, if auditing is off, audit_seccomp shouldn't do
> anything.  After all, unlike e.g. selinux, seccomp is not a systemwide
> policy, and seccomp signals might be ordinary behavior that's internal
> to the seccomp-using application.  IOW, for people with audit compiled
> in and subscribed by journald but switched off, I think that the
> records shouldn't be emitted.
> 
> If you agree, I can send the two-line patch.

This sounds reasonable to me.  It isn't an AVC.  Steve?  Paul?

> --Andy

- RGB

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