Is there an advantage to disabling syscall use like significantly reduced 
memory usage if someone only needs to do file watches?  In the end though I 
thought everything that was auditable was via syscall.

Kevin Boyce




-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Moore [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 9:08 AM
To: Boyce, Kevin P (AS)
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: EXT :Fold CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL into CONFIG_AUDIT?

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Boyce, Kevin P (AS) <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> Having never looked at the code, it sounds reasonable to me.  It doesn't make 
> a lot of sense to disable syscall auditing independently.

I'd be very surprised to hear if anyone is running audit *without* syscall 
auditing, but I thought I would toss the question out there on the off chance 
I'm missing some critical use case.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Moore
> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 5:43 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: EXT :Fold CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL into CONFIG_AUDIT?
>
> Does anyone out there build kernels with CONFIG_AUDIT=y and 
> CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n?  I'm thinking of simply removing the 
> CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL knob and moving all that code under CONFIG_AUDIT, does 
> anyone have any objections?

--
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com


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