[PATCH ghak109 V2] audit: link integrity evm_write_xattrs record to syscall event

Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.ibm.com
Tue Mar 26 20:40:30 UTC 2019


Hi Richard, Paul,

On Tue, 2019-03-26 at 14:49 -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> In commit fa516b66a1bf ("EVM: Allow runtime modification of the set of
> verified xattrs"), the call to audit_log_start() is missing a context to
> link it to an audit event. Since this event is in user context, add
> the process' syscall context to the record.
> 
> In addition, the orphaned keyword "locked" appears in the record.
> Normalize this by changing it to logging the locking string "." as any
> other user input in the "xattr=" field.
> 
> Please see the github issue
> https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/109
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com>

Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar at linux.ibm.com>

Paul, were you planning on upstreaming this patch?

Mimi



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