audit: remove CONFIG_AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE

After trying to use this feature in Fedora we found the hard coding
policy like this into the kernel was a bad idea.  Surprise surprise.
We ran into these problems because it was impossible to launch a
container as a logged in user and run a login daemon inside that container.
This reverts back to the old behavior before this option was added.  The
option will be re-added in a userspace selectable manor such that
userspace can choose when it is and when it is not appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index fed81b576f29..18a98c893d07 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -301,20 +301,6 @@ config AUDIT_TREE
         depends on AUDITSYSCALL
         select FSNOTIFY
 
-config AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE
-        bool "Make audit loginuid immutable"
-        depends on AUDIT
-        help
-          The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires
-          CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions
-          but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never
-          previously set.  On systems which use systemd or a similar central
-          process to restart login services this should be set to true.  On older
-          systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and
-          start processes this should be set to false.  Setting this to true allows
-          one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks,
-          but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems.
-
 source "kernel/irq/Kconfig"
 source "kernel/time/Kconfig"
 
diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index 72684679e8bd..b55788bf1607 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -1968,15 +1968,13 @@ static atomic_t session_id = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
 
 static int audit_set_loginuid_perm(kuid_t loginuid)
 {
-#ifdef CONFIG_AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE
         /* if we are unset, we don't need privs */
         if (!audit_loginuid_set(current))
                 return 0;
-#else   /* CONFIG_AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE */
-        if (capable(CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL))
-                return 0;
-#endif /* CONFIG_AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE */
-        return -EPERM;
+        /* it is set, you need permission */
+        if (!capable(CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL))
+                return -EPERM;
+        return 0;
 }
 
 static void audit_log_set_loginuid(kuid_t koldloginuid, kuid_t kloginuid,