From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Subject: System call audit
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 20:06:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080513000617.GA26009@Krystal> (raw)
Hi David,
As I am looking into the system-wide system call tracing problem, I
start to wonder how auditsc deals with the fact that user-space could
concurrently change the content referred to by the __user pointers.
This would be the case for execve. If we create a program with two
thread; one is executing execve syscalls and the other thread would be
modifying the userspace string containing the name of the program to
execute. Since we have two copy_from_user, one in auditsc and one in the
real execve() function, the string passed to the OS could differ from
the string seen by auditsc.
Regards,
Mathieu
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next reply other threads:[~2008-05-13 0:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-13 0:06 Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2008-05-13 9:24 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-13 12:51 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-05-13 12:59 ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-13 13:12 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-05-13 13:19 ` Stephen Smalley
2008-05-13 13:51 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-05-13 13:12 ` Stephen Smalley
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