This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
audit: printk USER_AVC messages when audit isn't enabled
to the 3.4-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-printk-user_avc-messages-when-audit-isn-t-enabled.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 0868a5e150bc4c47e7a003367cd755811eb41e0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 18:02:55 -0700
Subject: audit: printk USER_AVC messages when audit isn't enabled
From: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 0868a5e150bc4c47e7a003367cd755811eb41e0b upstream.
When the audit=1 kernel parameter is absent and auditd is not running,
AUDIT_USER_AVC messages are being silently discarded.
AUDIT_USER_AVC messages should be sent to userspace using printk(), as
mentioned in the commit message of 4a4cd633 ("AUDIT: Optimise the
audit-disabled case for discarding user messages").
When audit_enabled is 0, audit_receive_msg() discards all user messages
except for AUDIT_USER_AVC messages. However, audit_log_common_recv_msg()
refuses to allocate an audit_buffer if audit_enabled is 0. The fix is to
special case AUDIT_USER_AVC messages in both functions.
It looks like commit 50397bd1 ("[AUDIT] clean up audit_receive_msg()")
introduced this bug.
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-audit@xxxxxxxxxx
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/audit.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ static int audit_log_common_recv_msg(str
char *ctx = NULL;
u32 len;
- if (!audit_enabled) {
+ if (!audit_enabled && msg_type != AUDIT_USER_AVC) {
*ab = NULL;
return rc;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/audit-printk-user_avc-messages-when-audit-isn-t-enabled.patch
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