This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
audit: printk USER_AVC messages when audit isn't enabled
to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Luis
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>From bd4bba2750d68bb460f4a85a781aa36dbdb5491e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tyler Hicks <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 18:02:55 -0700
Subject: audit: printk USER_AVC messages when audit isn't enabled
commit 0868a5e150bc4c47e7a003367cd755811eb41e0b upstream.
When the audit=1 kernel parameter is absent and auditd is not running,
AUDIT_USER_AVC messages are being silently discarded.
AUDIT_USER_AVC messages should be sent to userspace using printk(), as
mentioned in the commit message of 4a4cd633 ("AUDIT: Optimise the
audit-disabled case for discarding user messages").
When audit_enabled is 0, audit_receive_msg() discards all user messages
except for AUDIT_USER_AVC messages. However, audit_log_common_recv_msg()
refuses to allocate an audit_buffer if audit_enabled is 0. The fix is to
special case AUDIT_USER_AVC messages in both functions.
It looks like commit 50397bd1 ("[AUDIT] clean up audit_receive_msg()")
introduced this bug.
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Paris <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <[email protected]>
[ luis: backported to 3.5: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <[email protected]>
---
kernel/audit.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 5917dfe..f02d3fc 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ static int audit_log_common_recv_msg(struct audit_buffer
**ab, u16 msg_type,
char *ctx = NULL;
u32 len;
- if (!audit_enabled) {
+ if (!audit_enabled && msg_type != AUDIT_USER_AVC) {
*ab = NULL;
return rc;
}
--
1.8.3.2
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