linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 146/148] audit: ensure that audit=1 actually enables audit for PID 1

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Message-Id: <20171212124438.577867746@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:45:56 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>,
        Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 146/148] audit: ensure that audit=1 actually enables audit for PID 1

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

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From: Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>


[ Upstream commit 173743dd99a49c956b124a74c8aacb0384739a4c ]

Prior to this patch we enabled audit in audit_init(), which is too
late for PID 1 as the standard initcalls are run after the PID 1 task
is forked.  This means that we never allocate an audit_context (see
audit_alloc()) for PID 1 and therefore miss a lot of audit events
generated by PID 1.

This patch enables audit as early as possible to help ensure that when
PID 1 is forked it can allocate an audit_context if required.

Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/audit.c |   10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -79,13 +79,13 @@ static int	audit_initialized;
 #define AUDIT_OFF	0
 #define AUDIT_ON	1
 #define AUDIT_LOCKED	2
-u32		audit_enabled;
-u32		audit_ever_enabled;
+u32		audit_enabled = AUDIT_OFF;
+u32		audit_ever_enabled = !!AUDIT_OFF;
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(audit_enabled);
 
 /* Default state when kernel boots without any parameters. */
-static u32	audit_default;
+static u32	audit_default = AUDIT_OFF;
 
 /* If auditing cannot proceed, audit_failure selects what happens. */
 static u32	audit_failure = AUDIT_FAIL_PRINTK;
@@ -1199,8 +1199,6 @@ static int __init audit_init(void)
 	skb_queue_head_init(&audit_skb_queue);
 	skb_queue_head_init(&audit_skb_hold_queue);
 	audit_initialized = AUDIT_INITIALIZED;
-	audit_enabled = audit_default;
-	audit_ever_enabled |= !!audit_default;
 
 	audit_log(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_KERNEL, "initialized");
 
@@ -1217,6 +1215,8 @@ static int __init audit_enable(char *str
 	audit_default = !!simple_strtol(str, NULL, 0);
 	if (!audit_default)
 		audit_initialized = AUDIT_DISABLED;
+	audit_enabled = audit_default;
+	audit_ever_enabled = !!audit_enabled;
 
 	pr_info("%s\n", audit_default ?
 		"enabled (after initialization)" : "disabled (until reboot)");