Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] audit: record fanotify event regardless of presence of rules

On 2025-03-06 16:06, Jan Kara wrote: > On Wed 05-03-25 16:33:19, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > When no audit rules are in place, fanotify event results are > > unconditionally dropped due to an explicit check for the existence of > > any audit rules. Given this is a report from another security > > sub-system, allow it to be recorded regardless of the existence of any > > audit rules. > > > > To test, install and run the fapolicyd daemon with default config. Then > > as an unprivileged user, create and run a very simple binary that should > > be denied. Then check for an event with > > ausearch -m FANOTIFY -ts recent > > > > Link: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-1367 > > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb(a)redhat.com&gt; > > I don't know enough about security modules to tell whether this is what > admins want or not so that's up to you but: > > > -static inline void audit_fanotify(u32 response, struct fanotify_response_info_audit_rule *friar) > > -{ > > - if (!audit_dummy_context()) > > - __audit_fanotify(response, friar); > > -} > > - > > I think this is going to break compilation with !CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL && > CONFIG_FANOTIFY? Why would that break it? The part of the patch you (prematurely) deleted takes care of that.

diff --git a/include/linux/audit.h b/include/linux/audit.h index 0050ef288ab3..d0c6f23503a1 100644 --- a/include/linux/audit.h +++ b/include/linux/audit.h @@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ extern void __audit_log_capset(const struct cred *new, const struct cred *old); extern void __audit_mmap_fd(int fd, int flags); extern void __audit_openat2_how(struct open_how *how); extern void __audit_log_kern_module(char *name); -extern void __audit_fanotify(u32 response, struct fanotify_response_info_audit_rule *friar); +extern void audit_fanotify(u32 response, struct fanotify_response_info_audit_rule *friar); extern void __audit_tk_injoffset(struct timespec64 offset); extern void __audit_ntp_log(const struct audit_ntp_data *ad); extern void __audit_log_nfcfg(const char *name, u8 af, unsigned int nentries, > Honza > -- > Jan Kara <jack(a)suse.com&gt; > SUSE Labs, CR - RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs <rgb(a)redhat.com&gt; Sr. S/W Engineer, Kernel Security, Base Operating Systems Remote, Ottawa, Red Hat Canada Upstream IRC: SunRaycer Voice: +1.613.860 2354 SMS: +1.613.518.6570