Document FAN_AUDIT and related FAN_ENABLE_AUDIT flags. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- man2/fanotify_init.2 | 7 +++++++ man7/fanotify.7 | 9 ++++++++- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) OK, here's my attempt to document the FAN_AUDIT flag. It would be nice if Steve glanced over it from the audit side to check things are sane. diff --git a/man2/fanotify_init.2 b/man2/fanotify_init.2 index ca03b11dc98a..6becc7a680db 100644 --- a/man2/fanotify_init.2 +++ b/man2/fanotify_init.2 @@ -155,6 +155,13 @@ supplied to (see .BR fanotify (7)). .TP +.BR FAN_ENABLE_AUDIT " (since Linux 4.15)" +.\" commit de8cd83e91bc3ee212b3e6ec6e4283af9e4ab269 +Enable generation of audit log records about access mediation performed by +permission events. The permission event response has to be marked with +.B FAN_AUDIT +flag for audit log record to be generated. +.TP .BR FAN_REPORT_FID " (since Linux 5.1)" .\" commit a8b13aa20afb69161b5123b4f1acc7ea0a03d360 This value allows the receipt of events which contain additional information diff --git a/man7/fanotify.7 b/man7/fanotify.7 index 5804a1f30d6c..b5f096304cf4 100644 --- a/man7/fanotify.7 +++ b/man7/fanotify.7 @@ -588,7 +588,14 @@ to deny the file operation. .PP If access is denied, the requesting application call will receive an .BR EPERM -error. +error. Additionally, if the notification group has been created with +.B FAN_ENABLE_AUDIT +flag, +.B FAN_AUDIT +flag can be set in the +.I response +field. In that case audit subsystem will log information about the access +decision to the audit logs. .\" .SS Closing the fanotify file descriptor When all file descriptors referring to the fanotify notification group are -- 2.16.4
