[PATCH] revert: 1320a4052ea1 ("audit: trigger accompanying records when no rules present")

[Paul Moore]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 5:09 PM Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately the commit listed in the subject line above failed
> to ensure that the task's audit_context was properly initialized/set
> before enabling the "accompanying records".  Depending on the
> sitation, the resulting audit_context could have invalid values in
> some of it's fields which could cause a kernel panic/oops when the
> task/syscall exists and the audit records are generated.
>
> We will revisit the original patch, with the necessary fixes, in a
> future kernel but right now we just want to fix the kernel panic
> with the least amount of added risk.
>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 1320a4052ea1 ("audit: trigger accompanying records when no rules present")
> Reported-by: j2468h at googlemail.com
> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
> ---
>  kernel/audit.c   |    1 -
>  kernel/audit.h   |    8 --------
>  kernel/auditsc.c |    3 +++
>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

William pointed out a misspelling in the patch description above,
which I just fixed.  Unfortunately I had already pushed the patch to
audit/stable-5.8 so I did a force-push to correct the spelling;
normally I wouldn't do something like that for such a trivial matter,
but since it is unlikely anyone is based of the audit/stable-5.8
branch this seemed like an okay time to do that.

I'll be sending a PR to Linus shortly.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com