[PATCH ALT5] audit: ignore module syscalls on inode child

From: Richard Guy Briggs
Date: Fri Mar 03 2017 - 17:25:32 EST


Tracefs or debugfs were causing hundreds to thousands of null PATH
records to be associated with the init_module and finit_module SYSCALL
records on a few modules when the following rule was in place for
startup:
-a always,exit -F arch=x86_64 -S init_module -F key=mod-load

In __audit_inode_child, return immedialy upon detecting module-related
syscalls.

See https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/8
Test case: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-testsuite/issues/42

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/auditsc.c | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index 4db32e8..d7fe943 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -1868,6 +1868,12 @@ void __audit_inode_child(struct inode *parent,

if (!context->in_syscall)
return;
+ switch (context->major) {
+ case __NR_init_module:
+ case __NR_delete_module:
+ case __NR_finit_module:
+ return;
+ }

if (inode)
handle_one(inode);
--
1.7.1