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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: aulast only displaying reboot pseudo-users
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:29:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2733072.zhBU5hVyYr@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1402953610.11087.5.camel@localhost>

On Monday, June 16, 2014 05:20:10 PM Eric Paris wrote:
> My guess is that userspace just throws away record where it doesn't find
> the auid= and ses= and you kernel happens to live in those couple of
> months were it had "new-ses" and "new-auid"

Was this patch sent to stable? The audit code tries to handle the old way and 
the new way:

https://fedorahosted.org/audit/browser/trunk/tools/aulast/aulast.c#L175

But I thought the patch went to stable to prevent breaking user space. This is 
only one issue. I am seeing duplicate and missing events between systemd, gdm, 
and lightdm.


> I'd call this a pretty clear userspace bug where it just completely
> drops records, even if it can't parse them...

That theory can be tested by using:

ausearch --start this-week --debug > /dev/null

Anything that gets tossed out will be reported to stderr.

-Steve

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-17 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-04 22:04 aulast only displaying reboot pseudo-users Laurent Bigonville
2014-06-04 22:23 ` Steve Grubb
2014-06-04 22:42   ` Laurent Bigonville
2014-06-04 23:04     ` Steve Grubb
2014-06-05 17:34       ` Laurent Bigonville
2014-06-14 11:53         ` Laurent Bigonville
2014-06-16 21:20           ` Eric Paris
2014-06-16 21:24             ` Eric Paris
2014-06-16 21:28               ` Eric Paris
2014-06-17 13:29             ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2014-06-17 14:09               ` Laurent Bigonville
2014-06-17 14:31                 ` Eric Paris
2014-06-17 14:55                   ` Richard Guy Briggs
2014-06-17 15:04                     ` Steve Grubb
2014-06-17 14:56                   ` Steve Grubb
2014-06-17 15:15                     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2014-06-17 15:26                     ` Eric Paris
2014-06-17 16:30                       ` Steve Grubb

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