From: Paul Moore <[email protected]>
To: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Guy Briggs <[email protected]>,
Linux-Audit Mailing List <[email protected]>,
LKML <[email protected]>,
[email protected], Eric Paris <[email protected]>,
Steve Grubb <[email protected]>, Stefan Roesch <[email protected]>,
Christian Brauner <[email protected]>,
Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] io_uring,audit: audit IORING_OP_FADVISE but not IORING_OP_MADVISE
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:57:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHC9VhSfG6Oddk3qeFYiwkE5orRKs_PCLAD+F0yK-fRx27UTwg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 5:45 PM Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/27/23 3:35?PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 12:24 PM Richard Guy Briggs <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Since FADVISE can truncate files and MADVISE operates on memory, reverse
> >> the audit_skip tags.
> >>
> >> Fixes: 5bd2182d58e9 ("audit,io_uring,io-wq: add some basic audit support to io_uring")
> >> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <[email protected]>
> >> ---
> >> io_uring/opdef.c | 2 +-
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/io_uring/opdef.c b/io_uring/opdef.c
> >> index 3aa0d65c50e3..a2bf53b4a38a 100644
> >> --- a/io_uring/opdef.c
> >> +++ b/io_uring/opdef.c
> >> @@ -306,12 +306,12 @@ const struct io_op_def io_op_defs[] = {
> >> },
> >> [IORING_OP_FADVISE] = {
> >> .needs_file = 1,
> >> - .audit_skip = 1,
> >> .name = "FADVISE",
> >> .prep = io_fadvise_prep,
> >> .issue = io_fadvise,
> >> },
> >
> > I've never used posix_fadvise() or the associated fadvise64*()
> > syscalls, but from quickly reading the manpages and the
> > generic_fadvise() function in the kernel I'm missing where the fadvise
> > family of functions could be used to truncate a file, can you show me
> > where this happens? The closest I can see is the manipulation of the
> > page cache, but that shouldn't actually modify the file ... right?
>
> Yeah, honestly not sure where that came from. Maybe it's being mixed up
> with fallocate?
That was my thought too when I was looking at it.
> All fadvise (or madvise, for that matter) does is
> provide hints on the caching or access pattern. On second thought, both
> of these should be able to set audit_skip as far as I can tell.
Agreed on the fadvise side, and probably the madvise side too,
although the latter has more options/code to sift through so I'm
curious to hear what analysis Richard has done on that one.
--
paul-moore.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-27 22:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-27 17:23 [PATCH v1 0/2] two suggested iouring op audit updates Richard Guy Briggs
2023-01-27 17:23 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] io_uring,audit: audit IORING_OP_FADVISE but not IORING_OP_MADVISE Richard Guy Briggs
2023-01-27 22:35 ` Paul Moore
2023-01-27 22:45 ` Jens Axboe
2023-01-27 22:57 ` Paul Moore [this message]
2023-01-28 16:48 ` Steve Grubb
2023-01-27 23:02 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2023-01-27 23:03 ` Jens Axboe
2023-01-27 23:08 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2023-01-27 22:55 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2023-01-27 23:05 ` Paul Moore
2023-01-27 17:23 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] io_uring,audit: do not log IORING_OP_*GETXATTR Richard Guy Briggs
2023-01-27 22:43 ` Paul Moore
2023-01-27 23:01 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2023-01-27 23:05 ` Jens Axboe
2023-01-28 0:07 ` Paul Moore
2023-01-28 0:06 ` Paul Moore
2023-01-28 0:19 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2023-01-28 17:26 ` Steve Grubb
2023-01-29 23:37 ` Paul Moore
2023-01-27 17:40 ` [PATCH v1 0/2] two suggested iouring op audit updates Jens Axboe
2023-01-27 19:42 ` Paul Moore
2023-01-27 19:43 ` Jens Axboe
2023-01-27 22:38 ` Paul Moore
2023-01-27 22:46 ` Jens Axboe
2023-01-27 22:53 ` Paul Moore
2023-01-27 23:02 ` Jens Axboe
2023-01-27 23:07 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2023-01-27 23:08 ` Paul Moore
2023-01-27 23:10 ` Jens Axboe
2023-01-28 16:47 ` Steve Grubb
2023-01-28 17:03 ` Paul Moore
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