linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH GHAK16 V5 00/10] capabilities: do not audit log BPRM

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Date:   Fri, 20 Oct 2017 16:15:00 +1100 (AEDT)
From:   James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>
To:     Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
cc:     linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-audit@...hat.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        "Serge E . Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@...ntu.com>,
        Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>,
        Steve Grubb <sgrubb@...hat.com>, Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH GHAK16 V5 00/10] capabilities: do not audit log BPRM_FCAPS
 on set*id

On Thu, 19 Oct 2017, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:

> On 2017-10-11 20:57, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > The audit subsystem is adding a BPRM_FCAPS record when auditing setuid
> > application execution (SYSCALL execve). This is not expected as it was
> > supposed to be limited to when the file system actually had capabilities
> > in an extended attribute.  It lists all capabilities making the event
> > really ugly to parse what is happening.  The PATH record correctly
> > records the setuid bit and owner.  Suppress the BPRM_FCAPS record on
> > set*id.
> 
> <crickets>
> 
> Serge?  James?  Can one of you two take this via your trees since Paul
> has backed down citing (reasonably) that it is mostly capabilities
> patches rather than audit?

Applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security.git next-general

-- 
James Morris
<james.l.morris@...cle.com>