[PATCH] Fixed reason field in audit signal logging

Paul Davies C pauldaviesc at gmail.com
Thu Nov 7 13:39:32 UTC 2013


The audit system logs the signals that leads to abnormal end of a process.
However , as of now , it always states the reason for failure of a process as
"memory violation" regardless of the signal delivered. This is due to the
audit_core_dumps() function pass the reason for failure blindly to the
audit_log_abend() as "memory violation".

This patch changes the audit_core_dumps() function as to pass on the right
reason to the audit_log_abend based on the signal received.

Signed-off-by:Paul Davies C
---
 kernel/auditsc.c |   31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index 9845cb3..3cafd13 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -2395,7 +2395,36 @@ void audit_core_dumps(long signr)
 	ab = audit_log_start(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_ANOM_ABEND);
 	if (unlikely(!ab))
 		return;
-	audit_log_abend(ab, "memory violation", signr);
+
+	/*Identify the reason for failure based on signal delivered.*/
+	switch (signr) {
+	case SIGABRT:
+			audit_log_abend(ab, "received abort", signr);
+			break;
+	case SIGBUS:
+			audit_log_abend(ab, "invalid pointer dereference", signr);
+			break;
+	case SIGFPE:
+			audit_log_abend(ab, "invalid floating point instruction", signr);
+			break;
+	case SIGILL:
+			audit_log_abend(ab, "illegal instruction", signr);
+			break;
+	case SIGSEGV:
+			audit_log_abend(ab, "memory violation", signr);
+			break;
+	case SIGTRAP:
+			audit_log_abend(ab, "bad instruction / debugger generated signal", signr);
+			break;
+	case SIGXCPU:
+			audit_log_abend(ab, "cpu time violation", signr);
+			break;
+	case SIGXFSZ:
+			audit_log_abend(ab, "file size violation", signr);
+			break;
+	default:
+			audit_log_abend(ab, "not defined", signr);
+	}
 	audit_log_end(ab);
 }
 
-- 
1.7.9.5




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