[PATCH audit-next 2/2] Audit: make audit netlink socket net namespace unaware

[Gao feng]

On 01/17/2014 06:29 AM, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Gao feng (gaofeng at cn.fujitsu.com):
>> Add a compare function which always return true for
>> audit netlink socket, this will cause audit netlink
>> sockets netns unaware, and no matter which netns the
>> user space audit netlink sockets belong to, they all
>> can find out and communicate with audit_sock.
>>
>> This gets rid of the necessary to create per-netns
>> audit kernel side socket(audit_sock), it's pain to
>> depend on and get reference of netns for auditns.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng at cn.fujitsu.com>
> 
> So whereas before you could prevent a task from spamming
> audit by putting it into a private netns, now you have to
> do it using a user namespace (to prevent capable(CAP_AUDIT_WRITE))
> right?
> 

Yes, the commit 1a938bec0090dc49abdb471e978e0d8155186845
"listen in all network namespaces" in audit-next already
did this change. this patch is another way to allow task
to generate audit msg in un-init netns. This is one of
the purpose of auditns. And this capable check has already
done in audit_netlink_ok.

> I don't know that anyone is depending on that, in any case, but
> it's a change.
> 

I think this change should be transparent to the userspace tools.
Since I don't know why a task should depend on audit is unavailable.

Or I misunderstand your question?

> Is this building up to something?
> 

Just allow task in un-init netns to communicate with kernel.

Thanks!
Gao

>> ---
>>  kernel/audit.c | 6 ++++++
>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
>> index b62153a..2ac6212 100644
>> --- a/kernel/audit.c
>> +++ b/kernel/audit.c
>> @@ -1064,12 +1064,18 @@ static void audit_receive(struct sk_buff  *skb)
>>  	mutex_unlock(&audit_cmd_mutex);
>>  }
>>  
>> +static bool audit_compare(struct net *net, struct sock *sk)
>> +{
>> +	return true;
>> +}
>> +
>>  /* Initialize audit support at boot time. */
>>  static int __init audit_init(void)
>>  {
>>  	int i;
>>  	struct netlink_kernel_cfg cfg = {
>>  		.input	= audit_receive,
>> +		.compare = audit_compare,
>>  	};
>>  
>>  	if (audit_initialized == AUDIT_DISABLED)
>> -- 
>> 1.8.4.2
>>
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