netdev - Re: [PATCH ghak90 v10 01/11] audit: collect audit task parameters

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Date:   Mon, 21 Dec 2020 12:14:38 -0500
From:   Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
To:     Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux Containers List <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Audit Mailing List <linux-audit@...hat.com>,
        Linux FSdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux NetDev Upstream Mailing List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Netfilter Devel List <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Simo Sorce <simo@...hat.com>,
        Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        mpatel@...hat.com, Serge Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ghak90 v10 01/11] audit: collect audit task parameters

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 11:57 AM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> The audit-related parameters in struct task_struct should ideally be
> collected together and accessed through a standard audit API and the audit
> structures made opaque to other kernel subsystems.
>
> Collect the existing loginuid, sessionid and audit_context together in a
> new opaque struct audit_task_info called "audit" in struct task_struct.
>
> Use kmem_cache to manage this pool of memory.
> Un-inline audit_free() to be able to always recover that memory.
>
> Please see the upstream github issues
> https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/81
> https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/90
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@...hat.com>

Did Neil and Ondrej really ACK/Review the changes that you made here
in v10 or are you just carrying over the ACK/Review?  I'm hopeful it
is the former, because I'm going to be a little upset if it is the
latter.

> ---
>  fs/io-wq.c            |   8 +--
>  fs/io_uring.c         |  16 ++---
>  include/linux/audit.h |  49 +++++---------
>  include/linux/sched.h |   7 +-
>  init/init_task.c      |   3 +-
>  init/main.c           |   2 +
>  kernel/audit.c        | 154 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  kernel/audit.h        |   7 ++
>  kernel/auditsc.c      |  24 ++++---
>  kernel/fork.c         |   1 -
>  10 files changed, 205 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com