[PATCH ghak120] audit: trigger accompanying records when no rules present

[Paul Moore]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 8:59 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 2020-03-09 19:55, Paul Moore wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 4:31 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On 2020-02-27 20:02, Paul Moore wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 4:01 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > When there are no audit rules registered, mandatory records (config,
> > > > > etc.) are missing their accompanying records (syscall, proctitle, etc.).
> > > > >
> > > > > This is due to audit context dummy set on syscall entry based on absence
> > > > > of rules that signals that no other records are to be printed.
> > > > >
> > > > > Clear the dummy bit in auditsc_set_stamp() when the first record of an
> > > > > event is generated.
> > > > >
> > > > > Please see upstream github issue
> > > > > https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/120
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >  kernel/auditsc.c | 2 ++
> > > > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
> > > > > index 4effe01ebbe2..31195d122344 100644
> > > > > --- a/kernel/auditsc.c
> > > > > +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
> > > > > @@ -2176,6 +2176,8 @@ int auditsc_get_stamp(struct audit_context *ctx,
> > > > >         t->tv_sec  = ctx->ctime.tv_sec;
> > > > >         t->tv_nsec = ctx->ctime.tv_nsec;
> > > > >         *serial    = ctx->serial;
> > > > > +       if (ctx->dummy)
> > > > > +               ctx->dummy = 0;
> > > >
> > > > Two comments:
> > > >
> > > > * Why even bother checking to see if ctx->dummy is true?  If it is
> > > > true you set it to false/0; if it is already false you leave it alone.
> > > > Either way ctx->dummy is going to be set to false when you are past
> > > > these two lines, might as well just always set ctx->dummy to false/0.
> > >
> > > Ok, no problem.
> > >
> > > > * Why are you setting ->dummy to false in auditsc_get_stamp() and not
> > > > someplace a bit more obvious like audit_log_start()?  Is it because
> > > > auditsc_get_stamp() only gets called once per event?  I'm willing to
> > > > take the "hit" of one extra assignment in audit_log_start() to keep
> > > > this in a more obvious place and not buried in auditsc_get_stamp().
> > >
> > > It is because the context is only available when syscall logging is
> > > enabled (which is on most platforms and hopefully eventually all) and
> > > makes for cleaner code and lack of need to check existance of the
> > > context.
> >
> > At the very least let's create some sort of accessor function for
> > dummy then, hiding this in auditsc_get_stamp() seems very wrong to me.
>
> Ok.  Anything else?

I'm not sure how many more words we can spill over a two line patch :)

Work up the v2, post it, and we can go from there.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com