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SubjectRe: [PATCH] audit: set TIF_AUDIT_SYSCALL only if audit filter has been populated
On Wed, 7 Mar 2018, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> Wow, this was a long time ago.

Oh yeah; but it now resurfaced on our side, as we are of course receiving
a lot of requests with respect to making syscall performance great again
:)

> From memory and a bit of email diving, there are two reasons.
>
> 1. The probably was partially solved (by Oleg, IIRC) by making auditctl
> -a task,never cause newly spawned tasks to not suck. Yes, it's a
> very partial solution. After considerable nagging, I got Fedora to
> default to -a task,never.

Hm, right; that's a bit inconvenient, because it takes each and every
vendor having to realize this option, and put it in. Making kernel do the
right thing automatically sounds like a better option to me.

> 2. This patch, as is, may be a bit problematic. In particular, if one
> task changes the audit rules while another task is in the middle of
> the syscall, then it's too late to audit that syscall correctly.
> This could be seen as a bug or it could be seen as being just fine.

I don't think this should be a problem, given the fact that the whole
timing/ordering is not predictable anyway due to scheduling.

Paul, what do you think?

Thanks,

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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