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

Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.ibm.com
Wed Mar 27 15:04:08 UTC 2019


On Tue, 2019-03-26 at 19:58 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 4:40 PM Mimi Zohar <zohar at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> 
> Yep, unless you would rather do it?

No, that's fine. Thanks!

Mimi



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