linux-kernel - Re: linux-audit: reconstruct path names from syscall events?

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Date:	Tue, 9 Oct 2012 16:47:17 -0700
From:	Mark Moseley <moseleymark@...il.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	john@...rix.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-audit@...hat.com
Subject: Re: linux-audit: reconstruct path names from syscall events?

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 04:09:18PM -0700, Mark Moseley wrote:
>
>> If you see my recent linux-audit posting, another related thing (at
>> least as far as missing relevant information in the logs) is that the
>> audit logs are logging pathnames relative to the chroot, instead of
>> the pathnames relative to the root of the OS itself. You'd expect a
>> process chroot'd to /chroot, accessing (from the perspective of the
>> OS) /chroot/etc/password would get logged as /chroot/etc/password but
>> is rather logged as /etc/password.
>>
>> I don't have a working LXC install handy, but I'd imagine the audit
>> subsystem would log relative to the container's / instead of the
>> host's / too.
>
> BTW, what makes you think that container's root is even reachable from
> "the host's /"?  There is no such thing as "root of the OS itself"; different
> processes can (and in case of containers definitely do) run in different
> namespaces.  With entirely different filesystems mounted in those, and
> no promise whatsoever that any specific namespace happens to have all
> filesystems mounted somewhere in it...

Nothing beyond guesswork, since it's been a while since I've played
with LXC. In any case, I was struggling a bit for the correct
terminology.

Am I similarly off-base with regards to the chroot'd scenario?
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