Re: [PATCH] audit: do a quick exit when syscall number is invalid

[Paul Moore]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 9:39 AM Steve Grubb <sgrubb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thursday, March 31, 2022 9:57:05 PM EDT CGEL wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 10:16:23AM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 10:29 PM CGEL <cgel.zte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 10:48:12AM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> > > > > If audit is not generating SYSCALL records, even for invalid/ENOSYS
> > > > > syscalls, I would consider that a bug which should be fixed.
> > > >
> > > > If we fix this bug, do you think audit invalid/ENOSYS syscalls better
> > > > be forcible or be a rule that can be configure? I think configure is
> > > > better.
> > >
> > > It isn't clear to me exactly what you are asking, but I would expect
> > > the existing audit syscall filtering mechanism to work regardless if
> > > the syscall is valid or not.
> >
> > Thanks, I try to make it more clear. We found that auditctl would only
> > set rule with syscall number (>=0 && <2047) ...

That is exactly why I wrote the warning below in my response ...

> > > Beware that there are some limitations
> > > to the audit syscall filter, which are unfortunately baked into the
> > > current design/implementation, which may affect this to some extent.

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