linux-kernel - [PATCH] Audit: Ignore terminating NUL in AUDIT_USER

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Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:59:04 +0200
From:	Miloslav Trmač <mitr@...hat.com>
To:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-audit@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jdennis@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, sgrubb@...hat.com
Subject: [PATCH] Audit: Ignore terminating NUL in AUDIT_USER_TTY messages

From: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@...hat.com>

AUDIT_USER_TTY, like all other messages sent from user-space, is sent
NUL-terminated.  Unlike other user-space audit messages, which come only
from trusted sources, AUDIT_USER_TTY messages are processed using
audit_log_n_untrustedstring().

This patch modifies AUDIT_USER_TTY handling to ignore the trailing NUL
and use the "quoted_string" representation of the message if possible.

Signed-Off-By: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@...hat.com>
---
> Miloslav, this is also going to take care of nulls in the TTY_AUDIT_USER
> message from userspace.  Is it going to be common to have control
> characters on that code path as well?
AUDIT_USER_TTY will commonly contain spaces, but not always.  This patch
cleans the AUDIT_USER_TTY messages up a bit.

 kernel/audit.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index ccb8d68..f3d88c4 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -763,6 +763,9 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 
 				audit_log_format(ab, " msg=");
 				size = nlmsg_len(nlh);
+				if (size > 0 &&
+				    ((unsigned char *)data)[size - 1] == '\0')
+					size--;
 				audit_log_n_untrustedstring(ab, data, size);
 			}
 			audit_set_pid(ab, pid);


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