This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
audit: Syscall rules are not applied to existing processes on non-x86
to the 3.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
audit-syscall-rules-are-not-applied-to-existing-processes-on-non-x86.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From cdee3904b4ce7c03d1013ed6dd704b43ae7fc2e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 10:46:17 +1100
Subject: audit: Syscall rules are not applied to existing processes on non-x86
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
commit cdee3904b4ce7c03d1013ed6dd704b43ae7fc2e9 upstream.
Commit b05d8447e782 (audit: inline audit_syscall_entry to reduce
burden on archs) changed audit_syscall_entry to check for a dummy
context before calling __audit_syscall_entry. Unfortunately the dummy
context state is maintained in __audit_syscall_entry so once set it
never gets cleared, even if the audit rules change.
As a result, if there are no auditing rules when a process starts
then it will never be subject to any rules added later. x86 doesn't
see this because it has an assembly fast path that calls directly into
__audit_syscall_entry.
I noticed this issue when working on audit performance optimisations.
I wrote a set of simple test cases available at:
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/audit_tests.tar.gz
02_new_rule.py fails without the patch and passes with it. The
test case clears all rules, starts a process, adds a rule then
verifies the process produces a syscall audit record.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/audit.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/audit.h
+++ b/include/linux/audit.h
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static inline void audit_syscall_entry(i
unsigned long a1, unsigned long a2,
unsigned long a3)
{
- if (unlikely(!audit_dummy_context()))
+ if (unlikely(current->audit_context))
__audit_syscall_entry(arch, major, a0, a1, a2, a3);
}
static inline void audit_syscall_exit(void *pt_regs)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from anton@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.9/audit-syscall-rules-are-not-applied-to-existing-processes-on-non-x86.patch
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