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

Steve Grubb
2014-11-17T17:23:57Z

On Monday, November 17, 2014 11:09:08 AM Paul Moore wrote:
> 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:
> > > 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:

Yeah, but how do we know its really selecting the right feature?

> > [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?

I would like it better if the following was tested as root:

auditctl -s
echo "1" > /proc/self/loginuid
auditctl --loginuid-immutable
auditctl -s
echo "2" > /proc/self/loginuid

This was we know that the feature is correctly reported, selected, and
working.

-Steve