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SubjectRe: ntp audit spew.
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 3:49 PM Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> wrote:
> Is this the thing where systemd is listening on the multicast netlink
> socket and causes everything to come out kmesg as well?

I don't think so, but I'm still a little confused as to why DaveJ is
seeing these records, so I'll go with a weak "maybe" ;)

> On Mon, 2019-09-23 at 15:49 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 02:57:08PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > nope.
> >
> > ro root=LABEL=/ biosdevname=0 net.ifnames=0 fsck.repair=yes
> > systemd.gpt_auto=0 pcie_pme=nomsi ipv6.autoconf=0 erst_disable
> > crashkernel=128M console=tty0 console=ttyS1,57600
> > intel_iommu=tboot_noforce
> >
> > Dave
> >
>


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paul moore
www.paul-moore.com

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