Re: [PATCH v2] audit: record fanotify event regardless of presence of rules

[Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>]

On Aug  6, 2025 Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> When no audit rules are in place, fanotify event results are
> unconditionally dropped due to an explicit check for the existence of
> any audit rules.  Given this is a report from another security
> sub-system, allow it to be recorded regardless of the existence of any
> audit rules.
> 
> To test, install and run the fapolicyd daemon with default config.  Then
> as an unprivileged user, create and run a very simple binary that should
> be denied.  Then check for an event with
> 	ausearch -m FANOTIFY -ts recent
> 
> Link: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-9065
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
> ---
> changelog:
> v2
> - re-add audit_enabled check
> ---
>  include/linux/audit.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Merged into audit/dev-staging with the plan being to merge it to
audit/dev once the merge window closes.

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