Hello,

On Saturday, October 16, 2021 3:23:51 AM EDT Gaosheng Cui wrote:
> It is not necessary for audit_filter_rules() functions to check
> audit fileds of the rule with a lower priority, and if we did,
> there might be some unintended effects, such as the ctx->ppid
> may be changed unexpectedly, so return early if the rule has
> a lower priority.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui <[email protected]>
> ---
>  kernel/auditsc.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
> index 42d4a4320526..b517947bfa48 100644
> --- a/kernel/auditsc.c
> +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
> @@ -470,6 +470,9 @@ static int audit_filter_rules(struct task_struct *tsk,
>       u32 sid;
>       unsigned int sessionid;
> 
> +     if (ctx && rule->prio <= ctx->prio)
> +             return 0;
> +

Just wondering something... If the first thing we do is to decide to return, 
should we have called the function in the first place? I wonder if this test 
should be used to break out of the rule iteration loops so that we don't keep 
calling only to return ?

-Steve

>       cred = rcu_dereference_check(tsk->cred, tsk == current || 
task_creation);
> 
>       for (i = 0; i < rule->field_count; i++) {
> @@ -737,8 +740,6 @@ static int audit_filter_rules(struct task_struct *tsk,
>       }
> 
>       if (ctx) {
> -             if (rule->prio <= ctx->prio)
> -                     return 0;
>               if (rule->filterkey) {
>                       kfree(ctx->filterkey);
>                       ctx->filterkey = kstrdup(rule->filterkey, GFP_ATOMIC);




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