On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Steve Grubb <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, October 16, 2017 3:10:59 PM EDT Paul Moore wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:24 PM, Steve Grubb <[email protected]> wrote: >> > The audit subsystem allows selecting audit events based on watches for >> > a particular behavior like writing to a file. A lot of syscalls have >> > been added without updating the list. This patch adds 2 syscalls to the >> > write filters: fallocate and renameat2. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: sgrubb <[email protected]> >> > --- >> > >> > include/asm-generic/audit_dir_write.h | 4 ++++ >> > include/asm-generic/audit_write.h | 3 +++ >> > 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+) >> >> FWIW, I expect that this syscall list is almost always going to be out >> of date; it's just the way this feature is designed. That doesn't >> mean I'm not going to merge fixes, I just want to make sure >> expectations are set accordingly. > > I understand...but we are years behind. I just wanted to close the gap on a > couple obvious syscalls since everyone else is busy with more important bugs.
No worries, I'm perfectly fine with chipping away at things, I just wanted to make sure that people aren't expecting this to be current. The way it's designed I can almost guarantee it will always lag. >> I don't really care either way, this just struck me as odd and I want to >> make sure you have a good reason (hint: add it to the patch >> description). > > Understandable. But its close enough to ftruncate that I think it qualifies. That's fine, I didn't feel very strongly about it either way. I'll merge this tomorrow when I'm back in front of the system with my audit kernel repo. -- paul moore www.paul-moore.com -- Linux-audit mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
