The move of the module sanity check to earlier skipped the audit logging call in the case of failure and to a place where the previously used context is unavailable. Add an audit logging call for the module loading failure case and get the module name when possible. Link: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-52839 Fixes: 02da2cbab452 ("module: move check_modinfo() early to early_mod_check()") Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/module/main.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c index 49b9bca9de12..1f482532ef66 100644 --- a/kernel/module/main.c +++ b/kernel/module/main.c @@ -3057,8 +3057,10 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info *info, const char __user *uargs, * failures once the proper module was allocated and * before that. */ - if (!module_allocated) + if (!module_allocated) { + audit_log_kern_module(info->name ? info->name : "(unavailable)"); mod_stat_bump_becoming(info, flags); + } free_copy(info, flags); return err; } -- 2.43.5