linux-kernel - Re: Hundreds of null PATH records for *init

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Date:   Tue, 7 Mar 2017 11:20:56 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
Cc:     Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
        Linux-Audit Mailing List <linux-audit@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Hundreds of null PATH records for *init_module syscall audit
 logs

On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 11:00:27 -0500
Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com> wrote:

> On 2017-03-07 10:41, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 22:39:54 -0500
> > Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > >From the output I've seen, it doesn't look particularly useful, but it    
> > > was useful to finally see the source of those huge numbers of PATH
> > > records.  Here's an fpaste:
> > > 	https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/UpZoYuokojR0es1ayNdx5l5M1UNdIGYhyRLivL9gydE=/  
> > 
> > Those are the files for the module's trace events that are created.
> > 
> > I'm still confused about what the issue is.  
> 
> The issue is the audit subsystem being overwhelmed by potentially
> useless information.
> 
> The initial report was "there's a bunch of null PATH records, please
> make them go away", which was anywhere from 500 to 6000 records.

I don't know the audit system and exactly what it is looking for. How
does it deal with other virtual filesystems like procfs? Why is tracefs
different?

-- Steve