linux-kernel - [PATCH] audit: format user messages to size of MAX_AUDIT_MESSAGE

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Date:	Tue, 17 Sep 2013 22:55:16 -0400
From:	Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
To:	linux-audit@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>,
	Steve Grubb <sgrubb@...hat.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
	Justin Stephenson <jstephen@...hat.com>,
	LC Bruzenak <lenny@...itekltd.com>
Subject: [PATCH] audit: format user messages to size of MAX_AUDIT_MESSAGE_LENGTH

Messages of type AUDIT_USER_TTY were being formatted to 1024 octets,
truncating messages approaching MAX_AUDIT_MESSAGE_LENGTH (8970 octets).

Set the formatting to 8560 characters, given maximum estimates for prefix and
suffix budgets.

See the problem discussion:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2009-January/msg00030.html

And the new size rationale:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2013-September/msg00016.html

Test ~8k messages with:
auditctl -m "$(for i in $(seq -w 001 820);do echo -n "${i}0______";done)"

Reported-by: LC Bruzenak <lenny@...itekltd.com>
Reported-by: Justin Stephenson <jstephen@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/audit.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 91e53d0..939cff1 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 			}
 			audit_log_common_recv_msg(&ab, msg_type);
 			if (msg_type != AUDIT_USER_TTY)
-				audit_log_format(ab, " msg='%.1024s'",
+				audit_log_format(ab, " msg='%.8560s'",
 						 (char *)data);
 			else {
 				int size;
-- 
1.7.1

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