linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH ghak90 (was ghak32) V4 03/10] audit: log container info of syscalls

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Date:   Fri, 26 Oct 2018 01:09:16 -0700
From:   Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
To:     Steve Grubb <sgrubb@...hat.com>, Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
Cc:     luto@...nel.org, rgb@...hat.com, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        dhowells@...hat.com, carlos@...hat.com, linux-audit@...hat.com,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
        simo@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
        Serge Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ghak90 (was ghak32) V4 03/10] audit: log container info of
 syscalls

On 10/25/2018 2:55 PM, Steve Grubb wrote:
> ...
> And historically speaking setting audit loginuid produces a LOGIN
> event, so it only makes sense to consider binding container ID to
> container as a CONTAINER event. For other supplemental records, we name
> things what they are: PATH, CWD, SOCKADDR, etc. So, CONTAINER_ID makes
> sense. CONTAINER_OP sounds like its for operations on a container. Do
> we have any operations on a container?

The answer has to be "no", because containers are, by emphatic assertion,
not kernel constructs. Any CONTAINER_OP event has to come from user space.
I think.