[PATCH 0/2] Syscall auditing lite
I've made no secret of the fact that I dislike syscall auditing. As far as I can tell, the main technical (i.e. not compliance-related) use of syscall auditing is to supply some useful context information to go along with events like AVC denials. CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is serious overkill to do this. kernel/auditsc.c is ~2500 lines of terror. This patchset accomplishes the same goal, more usefully, with no overhead at all, in under 70 lines of code. It tries to coexist cleanly with CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. This is only implemented for x86. Other architectures can add support fairly easily, I think. Andy Lutomirski (2): x86,syscall: Add syscall_in_syscall to test whether we're in a syscall audit: Syscall auditing lite arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h | 21 init/Kconfig | 3 +++ kernel/audit.c | 44 +- 4 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 1.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[PATCH 0/2] Syscall auditing lite
I've made no secret of the fact that I dislike syscall auditing. As far as I can tell, the main technical (i.e. not compliance-related) use of syscall auditing is to supply some useful context information to go along with events like AVC denials. CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is serious overkill to do this. kernel/auditsc.c is ~2500 lines of terror. This patchset accomplishes the same goal, more usefully, with no overhead at all, in under 70 lines of code. It tries to coexist cleanly with CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. This is only implemented for x86. Other architectures can add support fairly easily, I think. Andy Lutomirski (2): x86,syscall: Add syscall_in_syscall to test whether we're in a syscall audit: Syscall auditing lite arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/syscall.h | 21 init/Kconfig | 3 +++ kernel/audit.c | 44 +- 4 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 1.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
