From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
chrisw@sous-sol.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] audit: clear thread flag for new children
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:33:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711011033.53265.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071029231529.GB15210@suse.de>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-01 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-26 20:42 [PATCH] audit: clear thread flag for new children Tony Jones
2007-10-26 22:42 ` Chris Wright
2007-10-27 14:21 ` Steve Grubb
2007-10-29 17:20 ` Tony Jones
2007-10-29 22:04 ` Steve Grubb
2007-10-29 23:15 ` Tony Jones
2007-11-01 14:33 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2007-11-01 17:23 ` Tony Jones
2007-11-01 18:34 ` Steve Grubb
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