[RFC PATCH ghak21 3/4] audit: add refused symlink to audit_names

Richard Guy Briggs rgb at redhat.com
Wed Feb 14 16:18:23 UTC 2018


Audit link denied events for symlinks had duplicate PATH records rather
than just updating the existing PATH record.  Update the symlink's PATH
record with the current dentry and inode information.

See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/21
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com>
---
 fs/namei.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 9cc91fb..0edf133 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -945,6 +945,7 @@ static inline int may_follow_link(struct nameidata *nd)
 	if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU)
 		return -ECHILD;
 
+	audit_inode(nd->name, nd->stack[0].link.dentry, 0);
 	audit_log_link_denied("follow_link", &nd->stack[0].link);
 	return -EACCES;
 }
-- 
1.8.3.1




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