From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Grubb Subject: Re: Hundreds of null PATH records for *init_module syscall audit logs Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 08:33:14 -0500 Message-ID: <5936704.Br2IElDqrA@x2> References: <20170301031549.GT18258@madcap2.tricolour.ca> <20170307104139.38f5cd38@gandalf.local.home> <20170307160027.GB10258@madcap2.tricolour.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170307160027.GB10258@madcap2.tricolour.ca> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com To: linux-audit@redhat.com Cc: Richard Guy Briggs , Greg Kroah-Hartman , LKML , Steven Rostedt , Ingo Molnar , Al Viro List-Id: linux-audit@redhat.com On Tuesday, March 7, 2017 11:00:27 AM EST Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > On 2017-03-07 10:41, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 22:39:54 -0500 > > > > Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > > >From the output I've seen, it doesn't look particularly useful, but it > > > > > > was useful to finally see the source of those huge numbers of PATH > > > > > > records. Here's an fpaste: > > > https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/ UpZoYuokojR0es1ayNdx5l5M1UNdIGYhy > > > RLivL9gydE=/> > > Those are the files for the module's trace events that are created. > > > > I'm still confused about what the issue is. > > The issue is the audit subsystem being overwhelmed by potentially > useless information. > > The initial report was "there's a bunch of null PATH records, please > make them go away", which was anywhere from 500 to 6000 records. > > Once I found out what they generally were and a way to enumerate the > contents, we're reviewing that assessment to see if they really should > be tossed, or listed out in full. They should be tossed. They do not help in any way. What we need for an auxiliary record is simply the module's name. That's all. -Steve