Re: [PATCH V9 3/3] audit: add audit by children of executable path

From: Paul Moore
Date: Fri Aug 07 2015 - 10:30:22 EST


On Friday, August 07, 2015 02:37:15 AM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 15/08/06, Paul Moore wrote:
>
> > I guess what I'm saying is that I'm not currently convinced that
> > there is enough value in this to offset the risk I feel the loop
> > presents. I understand the use cases that you are mentioning, the
> > are the same as the last time we discussed this, but I'm going to
> > need something better than that.
>
> Can you better describe the loop that concerns you? I don't quite see
> it.

It would be the only loop in the patch, look at the for loop in
audit_filter_rules() which iterates up the process' parent chain.

--
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com

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