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SubjectRe: ntp audit spew.
On 2019-09-23 23:01, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 5:00 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 2019-09-23 12:14, 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
> >
> > Odd. It appears these two above should have the same serial number and
> > should be accompanied by a syscall record. It appears that it has no
> > context to update to connect the two records. Is it possible it is not
> > being called in a task context? If that were the case though, I'd
> > expect audit_dummy_context() to return 1...
>
> Yeah, I'm a little confused with these messages too. As you pointed
> out, the different serial numbers imply that the audit_context is NULL
> and if the audit_context is NULL I would have expected it to fail the
> audit_dummy_context() check in audit_ntp_log(). I'm looking at this
> with tired eyes at the moment, so I'm likely missing something, but I
> just don't see it right now ...
>
> What is even more confusing is that I don't see this issue on my test systems.
>
> > Checking audit_enabled should not be necessary but might fix the
> > problem, but still not explain why we're getting these records.
>
> I'd like to understand why this is happening before we start changing the code.

Absolutely.

This looks like a similar issue to the AUDIT_NETFILTER_CFG issue where
we get a lone record unconnected to a syscall when one of the netfilter
table initialization (ipv4 filter) is linked into the kernel rather than
compiled as a module, so it is run in kernel context at boot rather than
in user context as a module load later. This is why I ask if it is
being run by a kernel thread rather than a user task, perhaps using a
syscall function call internally.

> paul moore

- RGB

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