[PATCH] audit: use supplied gfp_mask from audit_buffer in kauditd_send_multicast_skb

Richard Guy Briggs rgb at redhat.com
Fri Dec 19 04:09:27 UTC 2014


Eric Paris explains: Since kauditd_send_multicast_skb() gets called in
audit_log_end(), which can come from any context (aka even a sleeping context)
GFP_KERNEL can't be used.  Since the audit_buffer knows what context it should
use, pass that down and use that.

See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/16/542

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:2849
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 885, name: sulogin
2 locks held by sulogin/885:
  #0:  (&sig->cred_guard_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff91152e30>] prepare_bprm_creds+0x28/0x8b
  #1:  (tty_files_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff9123e787>] selinux_bprm_committing_creds+0x55/0x22b
CPU: 1 PID: 885 Comm: sulogin Not tainted 3.18.0-next-20141216 #30
Hardware name: Dell Inc. Latitude E6530/07Y85M, BIOS A15 06/20/2014
  ffff880223744f10 ffff88022410f9b8 ffffffff916ba529 0000000000000375
  ffff880223744f10 ffff88022410f9e8 ffffffff91063185 0000000000000006
  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88022410fa38
Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff916ba529>] dump_stack+0x50/0xa8
  [<ffffffff91063185>] ___might_sleep+0x1b6/0x1be
  [<ffffffff910632a6>] __might_sleep+0x119/0x128
  [<ffffffff91140720>] cache_alloc_debugcheck_before.isra.45+0x1d/0x1f
  [<ffffffff91141d81>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x43/0x1c9
  [<ffffffff914e148d>] __alloc_skb+0x42/0x1a3
  [<ffffffff914e2b62>] skb_copy+0x3e/0xa3
  [<ffffffff910c263e>] audit_log_end+0x83/0x100
  [<ffffffff9123b8d3>] ? avc_audit_pre_callback+0x103/0x103
  [<ffffffff91252a73>] common_lsm_audit+0x441/0x450
  [<ffffffff9123c163>] slow_avc_audit+0x63/0x67
  [<ffffffff9123c42c>] avc_has_perm+0xca/0xe3
  [<ffffffff9123dc2d>] inode_has_perm+0x5a/0x65
  [<ffffffff9123e7ca>] selinux_bprm_committing_creds+0x98/0x22b
  [<ffffffff91239e64>] security_bprm_committing_creds+0xe/0x10
  [<ffffffff911515e6>] install_exec_creds+0xe/0x79
  [<ffffffff911974cf>] load_elf_binary+0xe36/0x10d7
  [<ffffffff9115198e>] search_binary_handler+0x81/0x18c
  [<ffffffff91153376>] do_execveat_common.isra.31+0x4e3/0x7b7
  [<ffffffff91153669>] do_execve+0x1f/0x21
  [<ffffffff91153967>] SyS_execve+0x25/0x29
  [<ffffffff916c61a9>] stub_execve+0x69/0xa0

Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org #v3.16-rc1
Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com>
---
 kernel/audit.c |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 7b83c55..ce484fb 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ static void kauditd_send_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
  * This function doesn't consume an skb as might be expected since it has to
  * copy it anyways.
  */
-static void kauditd_send_multicast_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
+static void kauditd_send_multicast_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
 	struct sk_buff		*copy;
 	struct audit_net	*aunet = net_generic(&init_net, audit_net_id);
@@ -448,11 +448,11 @@ static void kauditd_send_multicast_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	 * no reason for new multicast clients to continue with this
 	 * non-compliance.
 	 */
-	copy = skb_copy(skb, GFP_KERNEL);
+	copy = skb_copy(skb, gfp_mask);
 	if (!copy)
 		return;
 
-	nlmsg_multicast(sock, copy, 0, AUDIT_NLGRP_READLOG, GFP_KERNEL);
+	nlmsg_multicast(sock, copy, 0, AUDIT_NLGRP_READLOG, gfp_mask);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1949,7 +1949,7 @@ void audit_log_end(struct audit_buffer *ab)
 		struct nlmsghdr *nlh = nlmsg_hdr(ab->skb);
 
 		nlh->nlmsg_len = ab->skb->len;
-		kauditd_send_multicast_skb(ab->skb);
+		kauditd_send_multicast_skb(ab->skb, ab->gfp_mask);
 
 		/*
 		 * The original kaudit unicast socket sends up messages with
-- 
1.7.1




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