From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Organization: Red Hat
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] audit: clear thread flag for new children
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:21:39 -0400
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Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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On Friday 26 October 2007 04:42:28 pm Tony Jones wrote:
> Thread flag TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT is not cleared for new children when audit
> context creation has been disabled (auditctl -e0). This can cause new
> children forked from a parent created when audit was enabled to not take
> the fastest syscall path thru entry.S

This came up almost 2 years ago:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2005-September/msg00048.html

The problem is that removing that flag makes the children unauditable in the 
future. The only place that flag gets set is during fork. Unless I'm missing 
something, to make all children auditable again would mean stopping all 
processes and or'ing that flag into all thread info areas. I do not want to 
propose that patch to LKML.  :)

-Steve
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