Thank you very much! I will check systemtap for the feature. Best, Xiaokui
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Steve Grubb <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, July 12, 2012 03:04:11 PM Xiaokui Shu wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a question about one of the features of audit. >> Can I use audit to log the EIP/RIP at time of syscall? There is a "-i" >> flag in strace that does the work. > > No. The audit system does not collect that information. Maybe trace points or > systemtap would be a better approach for that kind of thing? > > -Steve > >> When I compare the mechanisms of audit and strace(ptrace), I find >> maybe it is not possible for strace to do so. Audit is on the kernel >> side of a syscall, and does not know the audited program's internal >> information (I am not sure if I understand it right). However, one can >> still fetch extra information out of the syscall event (e.g. block a >> syscall when coming, check the audited program stack and clear >> blocking), but it may bring much overhead. >> >> Best, >> Xiaokui >> >> -- >> Linux-audit mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit -- Linux-audit mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
