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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>, Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Linux-Audit Mailing List <linux-audit@redhat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Hundreds of null PATH records for *init_module syscall audit logs
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 08:25:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1506758.nmGZ90BLZd@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170306214921.GR18258@madcap2.tricolour.ca>

On Monday, March 6, 2017 4:49:21 PM EST Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > Blocking PATH record on creation based on syscall *really* seems like
> > a bad/dangerous idea.  If we want to block all these tracefs/debugfs
> > records, let's just block the fs.  Although as of right now I'm not a
> > fan of blocking anything.
> 
> I agree.  What makes me leery of this approach is if a kernel module in
> turn accesses directly other files, or bypasses the load_module call to
> load another module from a file and avoids logging.

In this case, we want a second event with that module name. We do not want any 
PATH records.

-Steve

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-09 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-01  3:15 Hundreds of null PATH records for *init_module syscall audit logs Richard Guy Briggs
2017-03-01  3:24 ` [PATCH ALT1] audit: ignore tracefs and debugfs on inode child Richard Guy Briggs
2017-03-01  3:26 ` [PATCH ALT3] audit: hide PATH records of anonymous parents and their children Richard Guy Briggs
2017-03-01  3:29 ` [PATCH ALT2] audit: don't create PATH records for " Richard Guy Briggs
2017-03-01  3:29 ` [PATCH ALT4] audit: show fstype:pathname for entries with anonymous parents Richard Guy Briggs
2017-03-02 12:58   ` kbuild test robot
2017-03-01  3:37 ` Hundreds of null PATH records for *init_module syscall audit logs Richard Guy Briggs
2017-03-01  4:15   ` Steve Grubb
2017-03-03 21:14     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2017-03-03 22:24       ` [PATCH ALT5] audit: ignore module syscalls on inode child Richard Guy Briggs
2017-03-04  0:22       ` Hundreds of null PATH records for *init_module syscall audit logs Paul Moore
2017-03-06 21:49         ` Richard Guy Briggs
2017-03-06 22:30           ` Jessica Yu
2017-03-07  3:46             ` Richard Guy Briggs
2017-03-09 13:25           ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2017-03-09 13:24       ` Steve Grubb
2017-03-04  0:19   ` Paul Moore
2017-03-07  3:39     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2017-03-07 15:41       ` Steven Rostedt
2017-03-07 16:00         ` Richard Guy Briggs
2017-03-07 16:20           ` Steven Rostedt
2017-03-07 17:39             ` Richard Guy Briggs
2017-03-07 18:04               ` Steven Rostedt
2017-03-07 18:34                 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2017-03-07 19:09                   ` Steven Rostedt
2017-03-07 22:00                     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2017-03-09 13:33           ` Steve Grubb
2017-03-07 15:37     ` Steven Rostedt

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