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    audit: check current inode and containing object when filtering on major and minor · 16c174bd
    Eric Paris authored
    
    
    The audit system has the ability to filter on the major and minor number of
    the device containing the inode being operated upon.  Lets say that
    /dev/sda1 has major,minor 8,1 and that we mount /dev/sda1 on /boot.  Now lets
    say we add a watch with a filter on 8,1.  If we proceed to open an inode
    inside /boot, such as /vboot/vmlinuz, we will match the major,minor filter.
    
    Lets instead assume that one were to use a tool like debugfs and were to
    open /dev/sda1 directly and to modify it's contents.  We might hope that
    this would also be logged, but it isn't.  The rules will check the
    major,minor of the device containing /dev/sda1.  In other words the rule
    would match on the major/minor of the tmpfs mounted at /dev.
    
    I believe these rules should trigger on either device.  The man page is
    devoid of useful information about the intended semantics.  It only seems
    logical that if you want to know everything that happened on a major,minor
    that would include things that happened to the device itself...
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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