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SubjectRe: [PATCH] audit: do a quick exit when syscall number is invalid
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 09:11:19AM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 11:22 PM CGEL <cgel.zte@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 11:06:12PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 9:48 PM CGEL <cgel.zte@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Sorry could anybody give a hand to solve this? It works well on x86_64 and arm64.
> > > > I have no alpha environment and not familiar to this arch, much thanks!
> > >
> > > Regardless of if this is fixed, I'm not convinced this is something we
> > > want to merge. After all, a process executed a syscall and we should
> > > process it like any other; just because it happens to be an
> > > unrecognized syscall on a particular kernel build doesn't mean it
> > > isn't security relevant (probing for specific syscall numbers may be a
> > > useful attack fingerprint).
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.
> >
> > But syscall number less than 0 is even invalid for auditctl. So we
> > will never hit this kind of audit rule. And invalid syscall number
> > will always cause failure early in syscall handle.
> >
> > sh-4.2# auditctl -a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S -1
> > Syscall name unknown: -1
>
> You can add an audit filter without explicitly specifying a syscall:
>
> % auditctl -a exit,always -F auid=1000
> % auditctl -l
> -a always,exit -S all -F auid=1000
>
I have tried this, and execute program which call syscall number is -1,
audit still didn't record it. It supports that there's no need for audit
to handle syscall number less than 0.

sh-4.2# auditctl -a exit,always
sh-4.2# auditctl -l
-a always,exit -S all


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> paul-moore.com

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