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| author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2007-07-19 01:48:15 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-19 10:04:45 -0700 |
| commit | bdf4c48af20a3b0f01671799ace345e3d49576da (patch) | |
| tree | 7c3b903d2de1cba6e212ad6f347bc8742b08035a /Documentation | |
| parent | b111757c50ee30dad162192df6168e270a90c252 (diff) | |
audit: rework execve audit
The purpose of audit_bprm() is to log the argv array to a userspace daemon at
the end of the execve system call. Since user-space hasn't had time to run,
this array is still in pristine state on the process' stack; so no need to
copy it, we can just grab it from there.
In order to minimize the damage to audit_log_*() copy each string into a
temporary kernel buffer first.
Currently the audit code requires that the full argument vector fits in a
single packet. So currently it does clip the argv size to a (sysctl) limit,
but only when execve auditing is enabled.
If the audit protocol gets extended to allow for multiple packets this check
can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com>
Cc: <linux-audit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index ebffdffb3d9..72e247ef6fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1065,6 +1065,13 @@ check the amount of free space (value is in seconds). Default settings are: 4, resume it if we have a value of 3 or more percent; consider information about the amount of free space valid for 30 seconds +audit_argv_kb +------------- + +The file contains a single value denoting the limit on the argv array size +for execve (in KiB). This limit is only applied when system call auditing for +execve is enabled, otherwise the value is ignored. + ctrl-alt-del ------------ |