[PATCH] audit: move calcs after alloc and check when logging set loginuid

Richard Guy Briggs rgb at redhat.com
Tue Jun 28 16:06:58 UTC 2016


Move the calculations of values after the allocation in case the
allocation fails.  This avoids wasting effort in the rare case that it
fails, but more importantly saves us extra logic to release the tty ref.

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com>
---
 kernel/auditsc.c |    7 ++++---
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index 71e14d8..33dafa7 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -1985,14 +1985,15 @@ static void audit_log_set_loginuid(kuid_t koldloginuid, kuid_t kloginuid,
 	if (!audit_enabled)
 		return;
 
+	ab = audit_log_start(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_LOGIN);
+	if (!ab)
+		return;
+
 	uid = from_kuid(&init_user_ns, task_uid(current));
 	oldloginuid = from_kuid(&init_user_ns, koldloginuid);
 	loginuid = from_kuid(&init_user_ns, kloginuid),
 	tty = audit_get_tty(current);
 
-	ab = audit_log_start(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_LOGIN);
-	if (!ab)
-		return;
 	audit_log_format(ab, "pid=%d uid=%u", task_pid_nr(current), uid);
 	audit_log_task_context(ab);
 	audit_log_format(ab, " old-auid=%u auid=%u tty=%s old-ses=%u ses=%u res=%d",
-- 
1.7.1




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