Re: [RFC] Create an audit record of USB specific details

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Tue Apr 05 2016 - 13:02:54 EST


On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 18:40 +1000, Wade Mealing wrote:
> Consider the following scenario. Currently we have device drivers
> that emit text via a printk request which is eventually picked up by
> syslog like implementation (not the audit subsystem).

We also have UEVENTs. The crucial question is why udevd feeding
back events to the audit subsystem is inferior to the kernel
itself generating audit events.

Regards
Oliver