Re: [RFC PATCH ghak21 2/4] audit: link denied should not directly generate PATH record

From: Richard Guy Briggs
Date: Mon Mar 12 2018 - 04:06:23 EST


On 2018-03-08 19:26, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 11:18 AM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Audit link denied events generate duplicate PATH records which disagree
> > in different ways from symlink and hardlink denials.
> > audit_log_link_denied() should not directly generate PATH records.
> >
> > See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/21
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > kernel/audit.c | 14 +-------------
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> Merged, thanks.

Self-NACK. Please un-merge this RFC v1 version and merge instead the v2
patch since it removes the now-unnecessary struct path * parameter from
audit_log_link_denied().

> > diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
> > index 4c3fd24..683b249 100644
> > --- a/kernel/audit.c
> > +++ b/kernel/audit.c
> > @@ -2259,31 +2259,19 @@ void audit_log_task_info(struct audit_buffer *ab, struct task_struct *tsk)
> > void audit_log_link_denied(const char *operation, const struct path *link)
> > {
> > struct audit_buffer *ab;
> > - struct audit_names *name;
> >
> > if (!audit_enabled || audit_dummy_context())
> > return;
> >
> > - name = kzalloc(sizeof(*name), GFP_NOFS);
> > - if (!name)
> > - return;
> > -
> > /* Generate AUDIT_ANOM_LINK with subject, operation, outcome. */
> > ab = audit_log_start(current->audit_context, GFP_KERNEL,
> > AUDIT_ANOM_LINK);
> > if (!ab)
> > - goto out;
> > + return;
> > audit_log_format(ab, "op=%s", operation);
> > audit_log_task_info(ab, current);
> > audit_log_format(ab, " res=0");
> > audit_log_end(ab);
> > -
> > - /* Generate AUDIT_PATH record with object. */
> > - name->type = AUDIT_TYPE_NORMAL;
> > - audit_copy_inode(name, link->dentry, d_backing_inode(link->dentry));
> > - audit_log_name(current->audit_context, name, link, 0, NULL);
> > -out:
> > - kfree(name);
> > }
> >
> > /**
> > --
> > 1.8.3.1
> >
>
>
>
> --
> paul moore
> www.paul-moore.com

- RGB

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