Re: [PATCH 1/1] audit: Use a tracepoint for getname

[Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>]

cc'ing Jeff Layton who has recently done a lot of getname work and I
want to make sure he sees this.


On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:56:59 -0700
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> wrote:

> Al, Eric,
> 
> 	Was this considered before? Acceptable?
> 
> - Arnaldo
> 
> ---
> 
> Instead of an explicit hook only for audit, use a tracepoint, so that
> other users that need to know about filenames can hook there just like
> audit.

> @@ -978,6 +986,9 @@ static int __init audit_init(void)
>  	else
>  		audit_sock->sk_sndtimeo = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
>  
> +	if (register_trace_getname(audit_getname, NULL))
> +		audit_panic("cannot register getname tracepoint");
> +
>  	skb_queue_head_init(&audit_skb_queue);
>  	skb_queue_head_init(&audit_skb_hold_queue);
>  	audit_initialized = AUDIT_INITIALIZED;

I think we need to just use panic instead of audit_panic.  This early
at boot userspace would not have been able to tell the kernel that
audit_panic == panic nor would the box die later if userspace ask for
that functionality.  Instead the box would run but audit would be
broken, which customers who want audit_panic == panic would be most
upset about.

Otherwise, its good to me.

-Eric