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watches using -p omit some syscalls

PATCH Linda Knippers 1 participant 1 message May 14, 2007 Audit

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I was doing some testing on the lspp .80 kernel and discovered that when issuing a simple watch on ia64, I didn't get audit records as I expected. For example, auditctl -w /foo, which defaults to -p rwxa, followed by a chmod or a chcon on the file generated no audit records.

I filed this bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239887

The problem exists but is less severe on other architectures. Klaus posted a patch in the bugzilla (see below) and also recommended that unknown syscalls not be silently ignored.

I have tested Klaus' patch and it solves the problem I saw on ia64. I'm sure Klaus would be happy to post a signed off patch.

-- ljk

kernel/auditfilter.c renamed from kernel/auditfilter.c.lspp.80 +1 -1
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@
 
 int audit_match_class(int class, unsigned syscall)
 {
-	if (unlikely(syscall >= AUDIT_BITMASK_SIZE * sizeof(__u32)))
+	if (unlikely(syscall >= AUDIT_BITMASK_SIZE * 32))
 		return 0;
 	if (unlikely(class >= AUDIT_SYSCALL_CLASSES || !classes[class]))
 		return 0;