Re: [PATCH] XFRM: SPD auditing fix to include the netmask/prefix-length

On Thursday 29 November 2007 5:34:59 am Herbert Xu wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 07:55:12PM +0000, Paul Moore wrote: > > Currently the netmask/prefix-length of an IPsec SPD entry is not > > included in any of the SPD related audit messages. This can cause a > > problem when the audit log is examined as the netmask/prefix-length is > > vital in determining what network traffic is affected by a particular > > SPD entry. This patch fixes this problem by adding two additional > > fields, "src_prefixlen" and "dst_prefixlen", to the SPD audit messages > > to indicate the source and destination netmasks. These new fields are > > only included in the audit message when the netmask/prefix-length is > > less than the address length, i.e. the SPD entry applies to a network > > address and not a host address. > > Any reason why we don't just always include them? The audit folks seem to be very sensitive to the size/length of the audit messages, they prefer they be as small as possible. I thought that one way to save space would be to only print the prefix length information when the address referred to a network and not a single host. Would you prefer it if the prefix length information was always included in the audit message? Joy? Audit folks?