This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
audit: ensure that 'audit=1' actually enables audit for PID 1
to the 4.14-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-ensure-that-audit-1-actually-enables-audit-for-pid-1.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 10:32:42 CET 2017
From: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 09:44:34 -0400
Subject: audit: ensure that 'audit=1' actually enables audit for PID 1
From: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 173743dd99a49c956b124a74c8aacb0384739a4c ]
Prior to this patch we enabled audit in audit_init(), which is too
late for PID 1 as the standard initcalls are run after the PID 1 task
is forked. This means that we never allocate an audit_context (see
audit_alloc()) for PID 1 and therefore miss a lot of audit events
generated by PID 1.
This patch enables audit as early as possible to help ensure that when
PID 1 is forked it can allocate an audit_context if required.
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/audit.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -85,13 +85,13 @@ static int audit_initialized;
#define AUDIT_OFF 0
#define AUDIT_ON 1
#define AUDIT_LOCKED 2
-u32 audit_enabled;
-u32 audit_ever_enabled;
+u32 audit_enabled = AUDIT_OFF;
+u32 audit_ever_enabled = !!AUDIT_OFF;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(audit_enabled);
/* Default state when kernel boots without any parameters. */
-static u32 audit_default;
+static u32 audit_default = AUDIT_OFF;
/* If auditing cannot proceed, audit_failure selects what happens. */
static u32 audit_failure = AUDIT_FAIL_PRINTK;
@@ -1552,8 +1552,6 @@ static int __init audit_init(void)
register_pernet_subsys(&audit_net_ops);
audit_initialized = AUDIT_INITIALIZED;
- audit_enabled = audit_default;
- audit_ever_enabled |= !!audit_default;
kauditd_task = kthread_run(kauditd_thread, NULL, "kauditd");
if (IS_ERR(kauditd_task)) {
@@ -1575,6 +1573,8 @@ static int __init audit_enable(char *str
audit_default = !!simple_strtol(str, NULL, 0);
if (!audit_default)
audit_initialized = AUDIT_DISABLED;
+ audit_enabled = audit_default;
+ audit_ever_enabled = !!audit_enabled;
pr_info("%s\n", audit_default ?
"enabled (after initialization)" : "disabled (until reboot)");
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/audit-allow-auditd-to-set-pid-to-0-to-end-auditing.patch
queue-4.14/audit-ensure-that-audit-1-actually-enables-audit-for-pid-1.patch