linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.8 050/152] audit: printk USER_AVC messages when audit isn't enabled

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Message-Id: <1386371476-2477-51-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Fri,  6 Dec 2013 15:09:34 -0800
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, linux-audit@...hat.com,
	Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.8 050/152] audit: printk USER_AVC messages when audit isn't enabled

3.8.13.14 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com>

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 <tyhicks@...onical.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@...hat.com
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 kernel/audit.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 8a667f10..1da9782 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ 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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