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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
	Linux-Audit Mailing List <linux-audit@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, omosnace@redhat.com,
	fw@strlen.de, twoerner@redhat.com,
	Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, tgraf@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH ghak25 v4 3/3] audit: add subj creds to NETFILTER_CFG record to cover async unregister
Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 14:23:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1894903.vQEQaK82eK@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200506224233.najv6ltb5gzcicqb@madcap2.tricolour.ca>

On Wednesday, May 6, 2020 6:42:33 PM EDT Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > > > We can't be adding deleting fields based on how its triggered. If
> > > > they are unset, that is fine. The main issue is they have to behave
> > > > the same.
> > > 
> > > I don't think the intent was to have fields swing in and out depending
> > > on trigger.  The idea is to potentially permanently not include them in
> > > this record type only.  The justification is that where they aren't
> > > needed for the kernel trigger situation it made sense to delete them
> > > because if it is a user context event it will be accompanied by a
> > > syscall record that already has that information and there would be no
> > > sense in duplicating it.
> > 
> > We should not be adding syscall records to anything that does not result
> > from a syscall rule triggering the event. Its very wasteful. More
> > wasteful than just adding the necessary fields.
> 
> So what you are saying is you want all the fields that are being
> proposed to be added to this record?

Yes.

> If the records are all from one event, they all should all have the same
> timestamp/serial number so that the records are kept together and not
> mistaken for multiple events.

But NETFILTER_CFG is a simple event known to have only 1 record.

> One reason for having information in seperate records is to be able to
> filter them either in kernel or in userspace if you don't need certain
> records.

We can't filter out SYSCALL.

-Steve



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-08 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-22 21:39 [PATCH ghak25 v4 0/3] Address NETFILTER_CFG issues Richard Guy Briggs
2020-04-22 21:39 ` [PATCH ghak25 v4 1/3] audit: tidy and extend netfilter_cfg x_tables and ebtables logging Richard Guy Briggs
2020-04-28 22:15   ` Paul Moore
2020-04-22 21:39 ` [PATCH ghak25 v4 2/3] netfilter: add audit table unregister actions Richard Guy Briggs
2020-04-28 22:15   ` Paul Moore
2020-04-22 21:39 ` [PATCH ghak25 v4 3/3] audit: add subj creds to NETFILTER_CFG record to cover async unregister Richard Guy Briggs
2020-04-28 22:25   ` Paul Moore
2020-04-29 14:31     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-04-29 18:47       ` Steve Grubb
2020-04-29 21:32         ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-05-01 16:23           ` Paul Moore
2020-05-06 21:26           ` Steve Grubb
2020-05-06 22:42             ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-05-08  2:45               ` Paul Moore
2020-05-08 18:23               ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2020-05-17 14:15     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-05-17 21:50       ` Paul Moore
2020-05-18  0:39         ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-05-18 14:40           ` Paul Moore

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