Ping: [PATCH] fanotify: Document FAN_AUDIT flag

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Hi Honza,

Linux 5.10 has been recently released.
Do you have any updates for this patch?

Thanks,

Alex

On 12/2/20 5:19 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> 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
>>>

-- 
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/



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