[PATCH] make set_loginuid obey audit_enabled
Amy Griffis
amy.griffis at hp.com
Tue Jun 13 21:39:55 UTC 2006
Steve Grubb wrote: [Mon Jun 12 2006, 07:48:28AM EDT]
> I was doing some testing and noticed that when the audit system was disabled,
> I was still getting messages about the loginuid being set. The following patch
> makes audit_set_loginuid look at in_syscall to determine if it should create
> an audit event. The loginuid will continue to be set as long as there is a context.
Do we really want to do away with these records? The loginuid is used
in several records that can be logged even with syscall auditing
disabled, e.g. AUDIT_CONFIG_CHANGE records generated by AUDIT_SET
operations.
It seems like we would want the LOGIN records for a complete trail of
what happened.
> Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com>
>
>
> diff -urp linux-2.6.16.x86_64.orig/kernel/auditsc.c linux-2.6.16.x86_64/kernel/auditsc.c
> --- linux-2.6.16.x86_64.orig/kernel/auditsc.c 2006-06-10 14:01:20.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6.16.x86_64/kernel/auditsc.c 2006-06-10 14:00:14.000000000 -0400
> @@ -1275,18 +1275,23 @@ void auditsc_get_stamp(struct audit_cont
> */
> int audit_set_loginuid(struct task_struct *task, uid_t loginuid)
> {
> - if (task->audit_context) {
> - struct audit_buffer *ab;
> + struct audit_context *context = task->audit_context;
>
> - ab = audit_log_start(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_LOGIN);
> - if (ab) {
> - audit_log_format(ab, "login pid=%d uid=%u "
> - "old auid=%u new auid=%u",
> - task->pid, task->uid,
> - task->audit_context->loginuid, loginuid);
> - audit_log_end(ab);
> + if (context) {
> + /* Only log if audit is enabled */
> + if (context->in_syscall) {
> + struct audit_buffer *ab;
> +
> + ab = audit_log_start(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_LOGIN);
> + if (ab) {
> + audit_log_format(ab, "login pid=%d uid=%u "
> + "old auid=%u new auid=%u",
> + task->pid, task->uid,
> + context->loginuid, loginuid);
> + audit_log_end(ab);
> + }
> }
> - task->audit_context->loginuid = loginuid;
> + context->loginuid = loginuid;
> }
> return 0;
> }
>
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