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authorPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>2008-03-20 18:39:41 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-03-20 18:39:41 -0400
commit75c0371a2d385ecbd6e1f854d9dce20889f06736 (patch)
tree34a9988cfb3077c88a44b904f466d129b01caae9 /kernel/user_namespace.c
parent4f42c288e66a3395e94158badbd182b2dae8eccb (diff)
audit: netlink socket can be auto-bound to pid other than current->pid (v2)
From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> This patch is based on the one from Thomas. The kauditd_thread() calls the netlink_unicast() and passes the audit_pid to it. The audit_pid, in turn, is received from the user space and the tool (I've checked the audit v1.6.9) uses getpid() to pass one in the kernel. Besides, this tool doesn't bind the netlink socket to this id, but simply creates it allowing the kernel to auto-bind one. That's the preamble. The problem is that netlink_autobind() _does_not_ guarantees that the socket will be auto-bound to the current pid. Instead it uses the current pid as a hint to start looking for a free id. So, in case of conflict, the audit messages can be sent to a wrong socket. This can happen (it's unlikely, but can be) in case some task opens more than one netlink sockets and then the audit one starts - in this case the audit's pid can be busy and its socket will be bound to another id. The proposal is to introduce an audit_nlk_pid in audit subsys, that will point to the netlink socket to send packets to. It will most often be equal to audit_pid. The socket id can be got from the skb's netlink CB right in the audit_receive_msg. The audit_nlk_pid reset to 0 is not required, since all the decisions are taken based on audit_pid value only. Later, if the audit tools will bind the socket themselves, the kernel will have to provide a way to setup the audit_nlk_pid as well. A good side effect of this patch is that audit_pid can later be converted to struct pid, as it is not longer safe to use pid_t-s in the presence of pid namespaces. But audit code still uses the tgid from task_struct in the audit_signal_info and in the audit_filter_syscall. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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