Re: x32 + audit status?

[Paul Moore]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mar 5, 2015 10:32 AM, "David Drysdale" <drysdale@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Do we currently expect the audit system to work with x32 syscalls?
>>
>> I was playing with the audit system for the first time today (on
>> v4.0-rc2, due to [1]), and it didn't seem to work for me.  (Tweaking
>> ptrace.c like the patch below seemed to help, but I may just have
>> configured something wrong.)
>>
>> I know there was a bunch of activity around this area in mid-2014,
>> but I'm not sure what the final position was...
>
> It's totally broken, and it needs ABI work.  I think it should keep
> the high syscall numbers, which means that both userspace and the
> audit core need to learn how to deal with it.

What Andy said.  It's on the list of things to fix, but to be brutally
honest, it's not very high on the list due to lack of interest from
people asking for audit/x32 support.
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