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From: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
To: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>,
	linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V9 3/3] audit: add audit by children of executable path
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 10:30:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6430018.ENq3ajkyRS@sifl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150807063715.GB23800@madcap2.tricolour.ca>

On Friday, August 07, 2015 02:37:15 AM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 15/08/06, Paul Moore wrote:
>
> > I guess what I'm saying is that I'm not currently convinced that
> > there is enough value in this to offset the risk I feel the loop
> > presents. I understand the use cases that you are mentioning, the
> > are the same as the last time we discussed this, but I'm going to
> > need something better than that.
> 
> Can you better describe the loop that concerns you?  I don't quite see
> it.

It would be the only loop in the patch, look at the for loop in 
audit_filter_rules() which iterates up the process' parent chain.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-07 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-05 20:29 [PATCH V9 0/3] audit by executable name Richard Guy Briggs
2015-08-05 20:29 ` [PATCH V9 1/3] audit: clean simple fsnotify implementation Richard Guy Briggs
2015-08-06 20:19   ` Paul Moore
2015-08-05 20:29 ` [PATCH V9 2/3] audit: implement audit by executable Richard Guy Briggs
2015-08-06 20:23   ` Paul Moore
2015-08-07  6:25     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2015-08-07 14:27       ` Paul Moore
2015-08-05 20:29 ` [PATCH V9 3/3] audit: add audit by children of executable path Richard Guy Briggs
2015-08-06 20:24   ` Paul Moore
2015-08-06 21:08     ` Steve Grubb
2015-08-07  0:07       ` Paul Moore
2015-08-07  6:37         ` Richard Guy Briggs
2015-08-07 14:30           ` Paul Moore [this message]
2015-08-07 16:03             ` Richard Guy Briggs
2015-08-07 20:47               ` Paul Moore
2015-08-08  5:07                 ` Richard Guy Briggs

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