[PATCH] fix missed create event for directory audit

When an object is created via a symlink into an audited directory, audit misses
the event due to not having collected the inode data for the directory.  Modify
__audit_inode_child() to copy the parent inode data if a parent wasn't found in
audit_names[].

Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index b939ed2da3ee..b1356fc63b26 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@ void __audit_inode(const char *name, const struct inode *inode)
  * audit_inode_child - collect inode info for created/removed objects
  * @dname: inode's dentry name
  * @inode: inode being audited
- * @pino: inode number of dentry parent
+ * @parent: inode of dentry parent
  *
  * For syscalls that create or remove filesystem objects, audit_inode
  * can only collect information for the filesystem object's parent.
@@ -1262,7 +1262,7 @@ void __audit_inode(const char *name, const struct inode *inode)
  * unsuccessful attempts.
  */
 void __audit_inode_child(const char *dname, const struct inode *inode,
-                         unsigned long pino)
+                         const struct inode *parent)
 {
         int idx;
         struct audit_context *context = current->audit_context;
@@ -1276,7 +1276,7 @@ void __audit_inode_child(const char *dname, const struct inode *inode,
         if (!dname)
                 goto update_context;
         for (idx = 0; idx < context->name_count; idx++)
-                if (context->names[idx].ino == pino) {
+                if (context->names[idx].ino == parent->i_ino) {
                         const char *name = context->names[idx].name;
 
                         if (!name)
@@ -1304,6 +1304,16 @@ update_context:
                 context->names[idx].ino = (unsigned long)-1;
         else
                 audit_copy_inode(&context->names[idx], inode);
+
+        /* A parent was not found in audit_names, so copy the inode data for the
+         * provided parent. */
+        if (!found_name) {
+                idx = context->name_count++;
+#if AUDIT_DEBUG
+                context->ino_count++;
+#endif
+                audit_copy_inode(&context->names[idx], parent);
+        }
 }
 
 /**