Hello, the following 2 patches implements auditing of security events for Smack. patch 1 : created common LSM auditing code patch 2 : convert smack to use it Changes since V2 : - don't make Smack depend on AUDIT I tried to make it zero overhead in the !CONFIG_AUDIT case, without making the code too ugly (??). I hope i didn't mess it too much - makes everything a key=value pair - various other cleanup suggested by Eric and Casey Change since V1 : moves shareable code to include/linux/lsm_audit.h and security/lsm_audit.c. Smack specific logging functions are now defined in smack_access.c sample logs produced : type=1400 audit(1239127887.607:13): lsm=SMACK fn=smack_sb_mount action=denied subject="FOO" object="_" requested=w pid=6693 comm="mount" path="/debug" dev=sda5 ino=16161 type=1400 audit(1239127890.267:14): lsm=SMACK fn=smack_ptrace_may_access action=denied subject="FOO" object="_" requested=rw pid=6696 comm="ps" pid=6380 comm="bash" type=1400 audit(1239127895.051:20): lsm=SMACK fn=smack_task_kill action=denied subject="FOO" object="_" requested=w pid=6646 comm="bash" pid=6606 comm="thunderbird-bin" type=1400 audit(1239127908.555:21): lsm=SMACK fn=smack_inode_getattr action=denied subject="FOO" object="etienne" requested=r pid=6646 comm="bash" path="/home/etienne/Desktop" dev=sda8 ino=1237000 type=1400 audit(1239127909.223:22): lsm=SMACK fn=smack_inode_permission action=denied subject="FOO" object="_" requested=wx pid=6699 comm="rm" name="etienne" dev=sda8 ino=1236993 type=1400 audit(1239128125.263:24): lsm=SMACK fn=smack_netlabel_send action=denied subject="FOO" object="BAR" requested=w pid=6757 comm="telnet" daddr=212.180.1.1 dest=80