[PATCH ghak82] audit: Fix extended comparison of GID/EGID

[Richard Guy Briggs]

On 2018-05-17 17:31, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> The audit_filter_rules() function in auditsc.c used the in_[e]group_p()
> functions to check GID/EGID match, but these functions use the current
> task's credentials, while the comparison should use the credentials of
> the task given to audit_filter_rules() as a parameter (tsk).
> 
> Note that we can use group_search(cred->group_info, ...) as a
> replacement for both in_group_p and in_egroup_p as these functions only
> compare the parameter to cred->fsgid/egid and then call group_search.
> 
> In fact, the usage of in_group_p was incorrect also because it compared
> to cred->fsgid and not cred->gid.
> 
> GitHub issue:
> https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/82
> 
> Fixes: 37eebe39c973 ("audit: improve GID/EGID comparation logic")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace at redhat.com>

Nice.  You found a function that let you not have to roll a new global
one.  Is the comparision with cred->fsgid important?

If you run ./scripts/checkpatch.pl on the patch file it will complain on
those lines longer than 80 chars.  I don't have a problem with it.


> ---
>  kernel/auditsc.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
> index cbab0da86d15..ec38e4d97c23 100644
> --- a/kernel/auditsc.c
> +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
> @@ -490,20 +490,20 @@ static int audit_filter_rules(struct task_struct *tsk,
>  			result = audit_gid_comparator(cred->gid, f->op, f->gid);
>  			if (f->op == Audit_equal) {
>  				if (!result)
> -					result = in_group_p(f->gid);
> +					result = groups_search(cred->group_info, f->gid);
>  			} else if (f->op == Audit_not_equal) {
>  				if (result)
> -					result = !in_group_p(f->gid);
> +					result = !groups_search(cred->group_info, f->gid);
>  			}
>  			break;
>  		case AUDIT_EGID:
>  			result = audit_gid_comparator(cred->egid, f->op, f->gid);
>  			if (f->op == Audit_equal) {
>  				if (!result)
> -					result = in_egroup_p(f->gid);
> +					result = groups_search(cred->group_info, f->gid);
>  			} else if (f->op == Audit_not_equal) {
>  				if (result)
> -					result = !in_egroup_p(f->gid);
> +					result = !groups_search(cred->group_info, f->gid);
>  			}
>  			break;
>  		case AUDIT_SGID:
> -- 
> 2.17.0
> 

- RGB

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