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From:   Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Date:   Mon, 23 Sep 2019 14:57:08 -0400
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Subject: Re: ntp audit spew.
To:     Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc:     Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>, linux-audit@redhat.com
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On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 12:58 PM Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 12:14:14PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
>  > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 11:50 AM Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > I have some hosts that are constantly spewing audit messages like so:
>  > >
>  > > [46897.591182] audit: type=1333 audit(1569250288.663:220): op=offset old=2543677901372 new=2980866217213
>  > > [46897.591184] audit: type=1333 audit(1569250288.663:221): op=freq old=-2443166611284 new=-2436281764244
>  > > [48850.604005] audit: type=1333 audit(1569252241.675:222): op=offset old=1850302393317 new=3190241577926
>  > > [48850.604008] audit: type=1333 audit(1569252241.675:223): op=freq old=-2436281764244 new=-2413071187316
>  > > [49926.567270] audit: type=1333 audit(1569253317.638:224): op=offset old=2453141035832 new=2372389610455
>  > > [49926.567273] audit: type=1333 audit(1569253317.638:225): op=freq old=-2413071187316 new=-2403561671476
>  > >
>  > > This gets emitted every time ntp makes an adjustment, which is apparently very frequent on some hosts.
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > Audit isn't even enabled on these machines.
>  > >
>  > > # auditctl -l
>  > > No rules
>  >
>  > What happens when you run 'auditctl -a never,task'?  That *should*
>  > silence those messages as the audit_ntp_log() function has the
>  > requisite audit_dummy_context() check.
>
> They still get emitted.
>
>  > FWIW, this is the distro
>  > default for many (most? all?) distros; for example, check
>  > /etc/audit/audit.rules on a stock Fedora system.
>
> As these machines aren't using audit, they aren't running auditd either.
> Essentially: nothing enables audit, but the kernel side continues to log
> ntp regardless (no other audit messages seem to do this).

What does your kernel command line look like?  Do you have "audit=1"
somewhere in there?

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com