On 09/09/2013 02:22 PM, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On 09/09/2013 01:01 PM, Stephen Smalley wrote:
>> On 09/09/2013 09:47 AM, Stephen Smalley wrote:
>>> On 09/06/2013 03:50 PM, Joshua Brindle wrote:
>>>> Add libaudit support for adding directory watch rules.
>>>>
>>>> Add rule parsing support to auditd.
>>>>
>>>> Rule format matches auditctl. Currently only supports -w and -e.
>>>>
>>>> Change-Id: I8bdaea1b5e2a216eec79cd8c9dae583de8295d26
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Joshua Brindle <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> Maybe a bug in user, but I did this:
>>> - applied patch and rebuilt,
>>> - reflashed and booted,
>>> - created a /data/misc/audit/audit.rules file that contained:
>>> -w /data/system -p wa
>>> - adb reboot
>>> - adb logcat > logcat.txt
>>> - adb shell su 0 cat /proc/kmsg > dmesg.txt
>>>
>>> logcat.txt showed:
>>> --------- beginning of /dev/log/system
>>> I/auditd  (  119): Starting up
>>> I/audit_log(  119): Previous audit logfile detected, rotating
>>> E/audit_rules(  119): -w /data/system -p wa
>>>
>>> And then nothing else from auditd.
>>>
>>> /data/misc/audit/audit.log has no entries other than the usual:
>>> type=2000 msg=audit(0.710:1): initialized
>>> type=1403 msg=audit(1378733645.695:2): policy loaded auid=4294967295
>>> ses=4294967295
>>> type=1404 msg=audit(1378733645.695:3): enforcing=1 old_enforcing=0
>>> auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295
>>> type=1403 msg=audit(1378733647.665:4): policy loaded auid=4294967295
>>> ses=4294967295
>>> type=1404 msg=audit(1378733830.500:5): enforcing=0 old_enforcing=1
>>> auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295
>>>
>>> Creating and deleting files under /data/system appears to do nothing.
>>> What did I miss?
>>
>> So I re-tested with our kernel (i.e.
>> TARGET_PREBUILT_KERNEL=/path/to/seandroid/kernel/exynos/arch/arm/boot/zImage)
>> and that did generate the expected audit records.  I'm guessing that is
>> because we have a patch in our kernel tree that enables audit by
>> default.  Since your patch implements the -e (enable) support, I thought
>> I would try that on an unmodified kernel by putting
>> -e 1
>> -w /data/system -p wa
>> into audit.rules.
>>
>> But we then get a parse error from audit_rules,
>> E/audit_rules( 2504): Could not read audit rules
>> E/auditd  ( 2504): error reading audit rules: Try again
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong or is the parser broken?
> 
> Actually, it appears that audit_set_enabled() is failing, but your error
> handling code doesn't report it there so it ends up being reported as a
> failure reading the audit rules.
> 
> And that in turn appears to be a problem in audit_get_reply(), not
> something you changed.  Bill, your code in libaudit.c:audit_get_reply()
> is bailing with an error in the EAGAIN case rather than retrying despite
> the comment to the contrary.

Also, I think upstream auditd always does an audit_set_enabled(fd, 1)
during startup unless told to do otherwise.



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