Re: stacker and vm_enough_memory

From: Timothy R. Chavez (tinytim@private)
Date: Thu Jun 30 2005 - 07:14:26 PDT


On Thursday 30 June 2005 08:45, serue@private wrote:
> Quoting Tony Jones (tonyj@private):
> > > Clearly, you can't intelligently audit from a module since you have no idea 
> > > as to what use the caller intends to make of your information (or down the 
> > > road if stacker was to do something different from RETURN_ERROR_IF_ANY_ERROR).
> > 
> > I guess I should ammend that to say that you can't log using a simplistic
> > method.  I should look at the kernel audit subsystem to see if higher levels 
> > can generate an audit based on what they did with the capable data (i.e reject),
> > which an automated tool could combine with audit data from the module to 
> > suggest policy changes.
> 
> Exactly, if the lower levels can't distinguish between two types of
> requests, maybe the user-space audit daemon can look at multiple entries
> for a single process/event and consolidate/interpret them.

Probably not a good task for the audit daemon to be doing, but would be possible with ausearch perhaps?

-tim

> This might be easier if you use audit_log rather than printk, as you
> should be able to get a single serial number for the messages from one
> syscall.
> 
> -serge
> 
> 



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