Re: [PATCH] audit: don't attempt to lookup PIDs when changing PID filtering audit rules
On Monday, December 15, 2014 01:50:57 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
I've still got outstanding patches to store PIDs as struct pid
rather
than pid_t, so this was part of the motivation to start that in this
code.
Funny you mention this, while I was hunting for the root cause of the problem,
I had a patch which did just that, adding a pid struct to the audit_field
struct. Eventually we will have to go that route as (sadly) a PID is no
longer sufficient to identify a process on the system, you need PID+ns. We'll
still have the find_pid() problem then, but there are ways around that by
being smarter about how we add/delete/store filtering rules.
I opted for the patch I posted here because as you point out we really only
work in the init namespace and it didn't muddle the bugfix with new
functionality.
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paul moore
security and virtualization @ redhat