This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled audit: convert PPIDs to the inital PID namespace. to the 3.14-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-convert-ppids-to-the-inital-pid-namespace.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c92cdeb45eea38515e82187f48c2e4f435fb4e25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:10:41 -0500 Subject: audit: convert PPIDs to the inital PID namespace. From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> commit c92cdeb45eea38515e82187f48c2e4f435fb4e25 upstream. sys_getppid() returns the parent pid of the current process in its own pid namespace. Since audit filters are based in the init pid namespace, a process could avoid a filter or trigger an unintended one by being in an alternate pid namespace or log meaningless information. Switch to task_ppid_nr() for PPIDs to anchor all audit filters in the init_pid_ns. (informed by ebiederman's 6c621b7e) Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/audit.c | 4 ++-- kernel/auditsc.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -1829,10 +1829,10 @@ void audit_log_task_info(struct audit_bu spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock); audit_log_format(ab, - " ppid=%ld pid=%d auid=%u uid=%u gid=%u" + " ppid=%d pid=%d auid=%u uid=%u gid=%u" " euid=%u suid=%u fsuid=%u" " egid=%u sgid=%u fsgid=%u tty=%s ses=%u", - sys_getppid(), + task_ppid_nr(tsk), tsk->pid, from_kuid(&init_user_ns, audit_get_loginuid(tsk)), from_kuid(&init_user_ns, cred->uid), --- a/kernel/auditsc.c +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c @@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ static int audit_filter_rules(struct tas case AUDIT_PPID: if (ctx) { if (!ctx->ppid) - ctx->ppid = sys_getppid(); + ctx->ppid = task_ppid_nr(tsk); result = audit_comparator(ctx->ppid, f->op, f->val); } break; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rgb@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/audit-convert-ppids-to-the-inital-pid-namespace.patch queue-3.14/pid-get-pid_t-ppid-of-task-in-init_pid_ns.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html