System call audit

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

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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