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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: burn@swtf.dyndns.org, Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>,
	Linux Audit <linux-audit@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Occasional delayed output of events
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:51:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <805552026.0ifERbkFSE@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHC9VhQzr94BdBY3voNEMxzBPM-KS3h1V=epCMMsknfu6Q5vag@mail.gmail.com>

On Tuesday, January 19, 2021 3:26:04 PM EST Paul Moore wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 2:38 PM Burn Alting <burn.alting@iinet.net.au> 
wrote:
> > All systems use chrony (current NTP daemon). One is a VM (on top of KVM)
> > and the other a bare metal deployment. Does the above explain my second
> > data set (in the issue) from a bare metal Centos 8 host? Perhaps Lenny's
> > comments bare investigation. Either way, I will offer a patch to the
> > user space code to, based on a configuration value, manage correctly
> > such activity.
> ...
> 
> > msg=audit(1609920994.483:1787848):
> > msg=audit(1609920994.483:1787848):
> > msg=audit(1609920994.483:1787848):
> > msg=audit(1609920994.483:1787848):
> > msg=audit(1609920994.483:1787848):
> > msg=audit(1609920994.484:1787849):
> > msg=audit(1609920994.484:1787849):
> > msg=audit(1609921000.636:1787850):
> > msg=audit(1609921000.636:1787850):
> > msg=audit(1609921000.636:1787850):
> > msg=audit(1609921008.456:1787851):
> > msg=audit(1609921008.456:1787851):
> > msg=audit(1609921008.456:1787851):
> > msg=audit(1609921008.456:1787851):
> > msg=audit(1609921008.456:1787851):
> > msg=audit(1609921008.456:1787851):
> > msg=audit(1609920994.484:1787849):
> > msg=audit(1609920994.484:1787849):
> > msg=audit(1609920994.484:1787849):
> > msg=audit(1609921010.837:1787852):
> > msg=audit(1609921010.837:1787852):
> > msg=audit(1609921010.837:1787852):
> 
> > msg=audit(1609921010.837:1787852):
> Looking at the extracted snippet above where event 1787849 is out of
> 
> order we see the following timestamps:
> > msg=audit(1609920994.483:1787848):
> > msg=audit(1609920994.484:1787849):
> > msg=audit(1609921000.636:1787850):
> > msg=audit(1609921008.456:1787851):
> 
> > msg=audit(1609921010.837:1787852):
>
> ... which looks correct in as much that the time doesn't appear to go
> backwards between events.  As I said before, I'm not sure how Steve's
> userspace works so the time may be a red herring.

It only handles one record at a time. No chance to mix things up.

The github issue says that 30-stig.rules is being used. If the system time 
changed with chrony, I would expect syscall events with adjtimex. But the 
only ones given are execve.

-Steve

> Barring some weird condition where auditd disconnects and quickly
> reconnects to the kernel, and/or dies and is replaced quickly, I'm not
> seeing anything obvious in the kernel which would cause this.  I'm not
> saying there isn't anything there, just that it isn't obvious to me at
> the moment :)




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  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-19 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-01 21:22 Occasional delayed output of events Burn Alting
2021-01-03 15:41 ` Steve Grubb
2021-01-04  7:55   ` Burn Alting
2021-01-04 14:46     ` Steve Grubb
2021-01-04 20:12       ` Burn Alting
2021-01-10  4:39         ` Burn Alting
2021-01-15 22:18           ` Burn Alting
2021-01-16  0:35             ` Richard Guy Briggs
2021-01-16  2:42               ` Burn Alting
2021-01-17 14:07                 ` Paul Moore
2021-01-17 21:12                   ` Steve Grubb
2021-01-18 13:54                     ` Paul Moore
2021-01-18 14:31                       ` Steve Grubb
2021-01-18 20:34                         ` Burn Alting
2021-01-18 20:36                         ` Paul Moore
2021-01-19  8:18                           ` Burn Alting
2021-01-19 15:31                             ` Lenny Bruzenak
2021-01-19 19:11                             ` Paul Moore
2021-01-19 19:38                               ` Burn Alting
2021-01-19 20:26                                 ` Paul Moore
2021-01-19 21:51                                   ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2021-01-20  6:38                                     ` Burn Alting
2021-01-20 22:50                                       ` Paul Moore
2021-01-23 22:55                                         ` Burn Alting
2021-01-25 23:53                                           ` Steve Grubb
2021-01-26  0:11                                             ` Burn Alting
2021-01-26  0:20                                               ` Steve Grubb
2021-01-26  0:29                                                 ` Burn Alting
2021-01-26 11:53                                                   ` Burn Alting
2021-01-26 20:42                                                     ` Steve Grubb
2021-01-27 12:12                                                       ` Burn Alting
2021-01-19 20:42                               ` Richard Guy Briggs

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