[PATCH v2] audit: do a quick exit when syscall number is less than 0

[Paul Moore]

On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 10:23 PM <cgel.zte at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Yang Yang <yang.yang29 at zte.com.cn>
>
> Userspace may use syscall with syscall number less than 0 by calling
> syscall(syscall_num,..). This kind of syscall could never be audited,
> because auditctl requires rule with syscall number >=0. Therefore we
> better do a quick handle no need to gohead with this situation.
>
> Note that auditctl may set rules auditing invalid syscall with syscall
> number bigger than NR_syscalls, to keep this mechanism working, we do
> no more check(context->major bigger than NR_syscalls or not).
>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29 at zte.com.cn>
> Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci at zte.com.cn>
> ---
> v2:
> - cancel checking against NR_syscalls
> ---
>  kernel/auditsc.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

As discussed previously, this is not something I want to merge
upstream at this time.

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