Re: [PATCH v7 0/2] audit: improve NETFILTER_PKT records

[Paul Moore]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 7:36 AM Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Currently, NETFILTER_PKT records lack source and destination
> port information, which is often valuable for troubleshooting.
> This patch series adds ports numbers, to NETFILTER_PKT records.
>
> The first patch refactors netfilter-related code, by moving
> duplicated code to audit.c, by creating audit_log_nf_skb()
> helper function.
> The second one, improves the NETFILTER_PKT records, by
> including source and destination ports for protocols of
> interest.
>
> Ricardo Robaina (2):
>   audit: add audit_log_nf_skb helper function
>   audit: include source and destination ports to NETFILTER_PKT
>
>  include/linux/audit.h    |   8 ++
>  kernel/audit.c           | 159 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  net/netfilter/nft_log.c  |  58 +-------------
>  net/netfilter/xt_AUDIT.c |  58 +-------------
>  4 files changed, 169 insertions(+), 114 deletions(-)

Thanks Ricardo, both patches look good to me, I'm going to merge them
into audit/dev-staging just to get some very basic testing, but if I
can get an ACK from Florian on the patchset I'll go ahead and move the
patches over to audit/dev (feeds into linux-next and the next merge
window).

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