Re: [PATCH] audit: add missing syscalls to PERM class tables

From: Steve Grubb

Date: Wed Jun 10 2026 - 14:17:11 EST


On Wednesday, June 10, 2026 1:40:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time Ricardo Robaina
wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 2:05 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2026, at 18:47, Ricardo Robaina wrote:
> > > diff --git a/include/asm-generic/audit_read.h
> > > b/include/asm-generic/audit_read.h
> > > index fb9991f53fb6..8feebc5b4c50 100644
> > > --- a/include/asm-generic/audit_read.h
> > > +++ b/include/asm-generic/audit_read.h
> > > @@ -18,3 +21,19 @@ __NR_fgetxattr,
> > >
> > > #ifdef __NR_readlinkat
> > > __NR_readlinkat,
> > > #endif
> > >
> > > +#ifdef __NR_file_getattr
> > > +__NR_file_getattr,
> > > +#endif
> > > +#ifdef __NR_stat
> > > +__NR_stat,
> > > +#endif
> > > +#ifdef __NR_lstat
> > > +__NR_lstat,
> > > +#endif
> > > +#ifdef __NR_fstat
> > > +__NR_fstat,
> > > +#endif
> > > +#ifdef __NR_newfstatat
> > > +__NR_newfstatat,
> > > +#endif
> > > +__NR_statx,
> >
> > There are additional variants of 'stat' that I think you need
> > to cover here:
> >
> > scripts/syscall.tbl:79 stat64 fstatat64
> > sys_fstatat64 scripts/syscall.tbl:80 stat64 fstat64
> > sys_fstat64 arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl:18 i386
> > oldstat sys_stat
> > arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl:28 i386 oldfstat
> > sys_fstat arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl:84 i386
> > oldlstat sys_lstat
> > arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl:195 i386 stat64
> > sys_stat64 compat_sys_ia32_stat64
> > arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl:196 i386 lstat64
> > sys_lstat64 compat_sys_ia32_lstat64
> > arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl:197 i386 fstat64
> > sys_fstat64 compat_sys_ia32_fstat64
> > arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl:300 i386 fstatat64
> > sys_fstatat64 compat_sys_ia32_fstatat64
> > arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl:224 common osf_stat
> > sys_osf_stat arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl:225
> > common osf_lstat sys_osf_lstat
> > arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl:226 common osf_fstat
> > sys_osf_fstat
> Hi Arnd,
>
> Thanks for reviewing this patch! You're right, it seems all these stat
> variants should be added as well. Steve and Paul, correct me if I'm
> wrong here, please.

Alpha is unsupported. Those are True64 compatibility syscalls. You can
include it and #ifdef will filter it everywhere else. But, yeah. I guess the
rest are ok. I don't pay much attention to the 32 bit arches.

-Steve