On Mon, 2017-05-29 at 14:53 -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > Hi, > > On kernel Access Vector Cache (AVC) initialization, there is an audit > KERNEL > type message logged to announce this fact. > > The general format of audit messages are label=value pair > fields. Steve Grubb > has been asking to have these records normalized by having a > predictable set of > field labels present. > > There already exists an audit KERNEL message giving audit state which > has been > normalized thus: > "state=initialized audit_enabled=%u res=1" > > The AVC initialization audit message doesn't currently fit that > format: > "AVC INITIALIZED" > > I'd created an issue to normalize the AVC initialization along these > lines or > to have it move to a new message type and Paul Moore is questioning > whether > this message is required at all: > https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/48 > > Can this message simply be eliminated? AFAICT, yes, you can just remove it.