Re: [PATCH] audit: clear thread flag for new children

Steve Grubb
2007-11-01T14:34:51Z

On Monday 29 October 2007 07:15:30 pm Tony Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 06:04:31PM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > So when audit is re-enabled, how do you make that task auditable?
>
> No idea. How do you do it currently? HINT: current->audit_context == NULL
> for these tasks. If !audit_enabled, then audit_alloc() is not going to
> allocate an audit_context for the task.

We are looking into this - at one time it did. Someone should follow up with a
path correcting this soon. But I doubt the audit system will work correctly
if the flag gets removed as there is no good way to add it again later.

-Steve