[PATCH] Exclude messages by message type
- Add a new, 5th filter called "exclude".
- And add a new field AUDIT_MSGTYPE.
- Define a new function audit_filter_exclude() that takes a message type
as input and examines all rules in the filter. It returns '1' if the
message is to be excluded, and '0' otherwise.
- Call the audit_filter_exclude() function near the top of
audit_log_start() just after asserting audit_initialized. If the
message type is not to be audited, return NULL very early, before
doing a lot of work.
[combined with followup fix for bug in original patch, Nov 4, same author]
[combined with later renaming AUDIT_FILTER_EXCLUDE->AUDIT_FILTER_TYPE
and audit_filter_exclude() -> audit_filter_type()]
Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/include/linux/audit.h b/include/linux/audit.h
index 739b954..8fa1a8f 100644
--- a/include/linux/audit.h
+++ b/include/linux/audit.h
@@ -92,8 +92,9 @@
#define AUDIT_FILTER_ENTRY 0x02 /* Apply rule at syscall entry */
#define AUDIT_FILTER_WATCH 0x03 /* Apply rule to file system watches */
#define AUDIT_FILTER_EXIT 0x04 /* Apply rule at syscall exit */
+#define AUDIT_FILTER_TYPE 0x05 /* Apply rule at audit_log_start */
-#define AUDIT_NR_FILTERS 5
+#define AUDIT_NR_FILTERS 6
#define AUDIT_FILTER_PREPEND 0x10 /* Prepend to front of list */
@@ -132,6 +133,7 @@
#define AUDIT_LOGINUID 9
#define AUDIT_PERS 10
#define AUDIT_ARCH 11
+#define AUDIT_MSGTYPE 12
/* These are ONLY useful when checking
* at syscall exit time (AUDIT_AT_EXIT). */
@@ -289,6 +291,7 @@
extern int audit_avc_path(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt);
extern void audit_signal_info(int sig, struct task_struct *t);
extern int audit_filter_user(struct netlink_skb_parms *cb, int type);
+extern int audit_filter_type(int type);
#else
#define audit_alloc(t) ({ 0; })
#define audit_free(t) do { ; } while (0)