From a3f07114e3359fb98683069ae397220e8992a24a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Paris Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:47:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Audit: make audit=0 actually turn off audit Currently audit=0 on the kernel command line does absolutely nothing. Audit always loads and always uses its resources such as creating the kernel netlink socket. This patch causes audit=0 to actually disable audit. Audit will use no resources and starting the userspace auditd daemon will not cause the kernel audit system to activate. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- kernel/audit.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/audit.c') diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index 4414e93d8750..d8646c23b427 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -61,8 +61,11 @@ #include "audit.h" -/* No auditing will take place until audit_initialized != 0. +/* No auditing will take place until audit_initialized == AUDIT_INITIALIZED. * (Initialization happens after skb_init is called.) */ +#define AUDIT_DISABLED -1 +#define AUDIT_UNINITIALIZED 0 +#define AUDIT_INITIALIZED 1 static int audit_initialized; #define AUDIT_OFF 0 @@ -965,6 +968,9 @@ static int __init audit_init(void) { int i; + if (audit_initialized == AUDIT_DISABLED) + return 0; + printk(KERN_INFO "audit: initializing netlink socket (%s)\n", audit_default ? "enabled" : "disabled"); audit_sock = netlink_kernel_create(&init_net, NETLINK_AUDIT, 0, @@ -976,7 +982,7 @@ static int __init audit_init(void) skb_queue_head_init(&audit_skb_queue); skb_queue_head_init(&audit_skb_hold_queue); - audit_initialized = 1; + audit_initialized = AUDIT_INITIALIZED; audit_enabled = audit_default; audit_ever_enabled |= !!audit_default; @@ -999,13 +1005,21 @@ __initcall(audit_init); static int __init audit_enable(char *str) { audit_default = !!simple_strtol(str, NULL, 0); - printk(KERN_INFO "audit: %s%s\n", - audit_default ? "enabled" : "disabled", - audit_initialized ? "" : " (after initialization)"); - if (audit_initialized) { + if (!audit_default) + audit_initialized = AUDIT_DISABLED; + + printk(KERN_INFO "audit: %s", audit_default ? "enabled" : "disabled"); + + if (audit_initialized == AUDIT_INITIALIZED) { audit_enabled = audit_default; audit_ever_enabled |= !!audit_default; + } else if (audit_initialized == AUDIT_UNINITIALIZED) { + printk(" (after initialization)"); + } else { + printk(" (until reboot)"); } + printk("\n"); + return 1; } @@ -1146,7 +1160,7 @@ struct audit_buffer *audit_log_start(struct audit_context *ctx, gfp_t gfp_mask, int reserve; unsigned long timeout_start = jiffies; - if (!audit_initialized) + if (audit_initialized != AUDIT_INITIALIZED) return NULL; if (unlikely(audit_filter_type(type))) -- cgit v1.2.3 From 48887e63d6e057543067327da6b091297f7fe645 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 01:05:50 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] fix broken timestamps in AVC generated by kernel threads Timestamp in audit_context is valid only if ->in_syscall is set. Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- include/linux/audit.h | 4 ++-- kernel/audit.c | 4 +--- kernel/auditsc.c | 5 ++++- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/audit.c') diff --git a/include/linux/audit.h b/include/linux/audit.h index 1b2a6a5c1876..8f0672d13eb1 100644 --- a/include/linux/audit.h +++ b/include/linux/audit.h @@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ static inline void audit_ptrace(struct task_struct *t) /* Private API (for audit.c only) */ extern unsigned int audit_serial(void); -extern void auditsc_get_stamp(struct audit_context *ctx, +extern int auditsc_get_stamp(struct audit_context *ctx, struct timespec *t, unsigned int *serial); extern int audit_set_loginuid(struct task_struct *task, uid_t loginuid); #define audit_get_loginuid(t) ((t)->loginuid) @@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ extern int audit_signals; #define audit_inode(n,d) do { ; } while (0) #define audit_inode_child(d,i,p) do { ; } while (0) #define audit_core_dumps(i) do { ; } while (0) -#define auditsc_get_stamp(c,t,s) do { BUG(); } while (0) +#define auditsc_get_stamp(c,t,s) (0) #define audit_get_loginuid(t) (-1) #define audit_get_sessionid(t) (-1) #define audit_log_task_context(b) do { ; } while (0) diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index d8646c23b427..ce6d8ea3131e 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -1121,9 +1121,7 @@ unsigned int audit_serial(void) static inline void audit_get_stamp(struct audit_context *ctx, struct timespec *t, unsigned int *serial) { - if (ctx) - auditsc_get_stamp(ctx, t, serial); - else { + if (!ctx || !auditsc_get_stamp(ctx, t, serial)) { *t = CURRENT_TIME; *serial = audit_serial(); } diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c index 0a13d6895494..2a3f0afc4d2a 100644 --- a/kernel/auditsc.c +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c @@ -1957,15 +1957,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__audit_inode_child); * * Also sets the context as auditable. */ -void auditsc_get_stamp(struct audit_context *ctx, +int auditsc_get_stamp(struct audit_context *ctx, struct timespec *t, unsigned int *serial) { + if (!ctx->in_syscall) + return 0; if (!ctx->serial) ctx->serial = audit_serial(); t->tv_sec = ctx->ctime.tv_sec; t->tv_nsec = ctx->ctime.tv_nsec; *serial = ctx->serial; ctx->auditable = 1; + return 1; } /* global counter which is incremented every time something logs in */ -- cgit v1.2.3