On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Boyce, Kevin P (AS) <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
You would save on kernel image size (code is compiled out) and possibly some performance gains, but I'm not entirely sure of that last point, I would need to go check the code a bit more. However, I think the better question is, how useful are file watches without the associated syscall record? I'm going to say "not very". Also, it is probably moot, because as we mentioned earlier, I just don't believe there is anyone using audit who disables syscall auditing - it just doesn't make much sense. > -----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 -- Linux-audit mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
