Bug 1596119

Summary: The error message of virAuditOpen is messed in libvirtd.log when audit_level=2 and audit is disabled
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Virtualization Reporter: Yanqiu Zhang <yanqzhan>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Virtualization Maintenance <virt-maint>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: Yanqiu Zhang <yanqzhan>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 8.1CC: dyuan, eskultet, fjin, lmen, xuzhang
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Yanqiu Zhang 2018-06-28 09:32:25 UTC 
Description of problem:
 The error message of virAuditOpen is messed in libvirtd.log when audit_level=2 and audit is disabled

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-4.4.0-2.virtcov.el7.x86_64
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-5.el7.x86_64
audit-2.8.4-3.el7.x86_64


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Disable audit on host:
# cat /etc/default/grub
 ...
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="... audit=0"

#grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

#reboot

2. Set libvirt audit level to 2:
# vim /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf
audit_level = 2

# systemctl restart libvirtd

3. Check the audit error in libvirtd.log
# cat /var/log/libvirt/libvirtd.log|grep Audit
2018-06-28 06:24:19.652+0000: 13138: error : virAuditOpen:70 : invalid network pointer in Audit is not supported by the kernel
2018-06-28 06:24:21.632+0000: 13156: error : virAuditOpen:70 : invalid network pointer in Audit is not supported by the kernel
2018-06-28 06:24:22.105+0000: 13174: error : virAuditOpen:70 : invalid network pointer in Audit is not supported by the kernel
2018-06-28 06:24:22.747+0000: 13192: error : virAuditOpen:70 : invalid network pointer in Audit is not supported by the kernel
2018-06-28 06:24:23.861+0000: 13210: error : virAuditOpen:70 : invalid network pointer in Audit is not supported by the kernel


Actual results:
As in step3, the error msg is "invalid network pointer in Audit is not supported by the kernel"


Expected results:


Additional info:
Comment 2 Yanqiu Zhang 2018-06-28 09:57:34 UTC 
Created attachment 1455223 [details]
libvirtd.log
Comment 3 Jaroslav Suchanek 2020-02-18 14:19:24 UTC 
This bug was closed deferred as a result of bug triage.

Please reopen if you disagree and provide justification why this bug should
get enough priority. Most important would be information about impact on
customer or layered product. Please indicate requested target release.