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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Cc: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] audit: add feature audit_lost reset
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 15:40:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2846309.PeHxrRBX1K@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHC9VhS-roP2arsepAFPzRdbfrADTp6i=mp0FAOGvT33GNCg7A@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday, December 9, 2016 6:46:43 PM EST Paul Moore wrote:
> > I would suggest that the return value (presuming it was reset when
> > non-zero) or the audit record generated reporting the lost value
> > reset would be sufficient confirmation that the feature exists on the
> > running kernel and the addition to the feature bitmap is not strictly
> > necessary, but you only find this out upon attempting that lost reset.
> > 
> > Well, we haven't used much of that bitmap space and if it isn't to be
> > used when needed, why is it there?  If there is a relatively simple
> > alternate non-destructive way to discover the presence of a feature use
> > of the bitmap isn't necessary.
> 
> My concern isn't the absolute consumption of the bitmap, but rather
> the rate of the consumption.

I'm not concerned much about it. There are very few more RFE's that are either 
in the pipeline or something I can think of that we need.

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-10 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-05  8:02 [RFC][PATCH] audit: add feature audit_lost reset Richard Guy Briggs
2016-12-05 16:02 ` Paul Moore
2016-12-05 16:52   ` Richard Guy Briggs
2016-12-05 17:48     ` Paul Moore
2016-12-06  5:13       ` Richard Guy Briggs
2016-12-07  0:17         ` Paul Moore
2016-12-07  3:32           ` Richard Guy Briggs
2016-12-07 15:05             ` Paul Moore
2016-12-07 15:53               ` Steve Grubb
2016-12-07 15:58                 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2016-12-07 23:10                   ` Paul Moore
2016-12-07 23:30                     ` Steve Grubb
2016-12-07 23:45                       ` Paul Moore
2016-12-08  3:53                         ` Richard Guy Briggs
2016-12-08 14:05                           ` Paul Moore
2016-12-09  7:00                             ` Richard Guy Briggs
2016-12-09 23:46                               ` Paul Moore
2016-12-10 20:40                                 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2016-12-12 20:53                                   ` Paul Moore
2016-12-07 15:55               ` Richard Guy Briggs

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