Re: [PATCH] fanotify: Document FAN_AUDIT flag

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Hi!

On Wed 02-12-20 16:57:23, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> Please break lines at significant points,
> instead of just when it wraps at the right margin;
> as I did in this little paragraph.
> 
> See man-pages(7)::STYLE GUIDE::Use semantic newlines

OK, I'll do that for the submission of the next patch version.

								Honza

> On 12/2/20 4:43 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> > 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
> > 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR



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