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* Audit: remove spaces from audit_log_d_pathEric Paris2009-04-05
| | | | | | | | | audit_log_d_path had spaces in the strings which would be emitted on the error paths. This patch simply replaces those spaces with an _ or removes the needless spaces entirely. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* audit: ignore terminating NUL in AUDIT_USER_TTY messagesMiloslav Trmac2009-04-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | AUDIT_USER_TTY, like all other messages sent from user-space, is sent NUL-terminated. Unlike other user-space audit messages, which come only from trusted sources, AUDIT_USER_TTY messages are processed using audit_log_n_untrustedstring(). This patch modifies AUDIT_USER_TTY handling to ignore the trailing NUL and use the "quoted_string" representation of the message if possible. Signed-off-by: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Audit: fix handling of 'strings' with NULL charactersMiloslav Trmac2009-04-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | currently audit_log_n_untrustedstring() uses audit_string_contains_control() to check if the 'string' has any control characters. If the 'string' has an embedded NULL audit_string_contains_control() will return that the data has no control characters and will then pass the string to audit_log_n_string with the total length, not the length up to the first NULL. audit_log_n_string() does a memcpy of the entire length and so the actual audit record emitted may then contain a NULL and then whatever random memory is after the NULL. Since we want to log the entire octet stream (if we can't trust the data to be a string we can't trust that a NULL isn't actually a part of it) we should just consider NULL as a control character. If the caller is certain they want to stop at the first NULL they should be using audit_log_untrustedstring. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] fix broken timestamps in AVC generated by kernel threadsAl Viro2008-12-09
| | | | | | Timestamp in audit_context is valid only if ->in_syscall is set. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] Audit: make audit=0 actually turn off auditEric Paris2008-12-09
| | | | | | | | | | | Currently audit=0 on the kernel command line does absolutely nothing. Audit always loads and always uses its resources such as creating the kernel netlink socket. This patch causes audit=0 to actually disable audit. Audit will use no resources and starting the userspace auditd daemon will not cause the kernel audit system to activate. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] Fix the bug of using AUDIT_STATUS_RATE_LIMIT when set fail, no error ↵zhangxiliang2008-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | output. When the "status_get->mask" is "AUDIT_STATUS_RATE_LIMIT || AUDIT_STATUS_BACKLOG_LIMIT". If "audit_set_rate_limit" fails and "audit_set_backlog_limit" succeeds, the "err" value will be greater than or equal to 0. It will miss the failure of rate set. Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiliang <zhangxiliang@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* kernel/audit.c control character detection is off-by-oneVesa-Matti J Kari2008-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hello, According to my understanding there is an off-by-one bug in the function: audit_string_contains_control() in: kernel/audit.c Patch is included. I do not know from how many places the function is called from, but for example, SELinux Access Vector Cache tries to log untrusted filenames via call path: avc_audit() audit_log_untrustedstring() audit_log_n_untrustedstring() audit_string_contains_control() If audit_string_contains_control() detects control characters, then the string is hex-encoded. But the hex=0x7f dec=127, DEL-character, is not detected. I guess this could have at least some minor security implications, since a user can create a filename with 0x7f in it, causing logged filename to possibly look different when someone reads it on the terminal. Signed-off-by: Vesa-Matti Kari <vmkari@cc.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] remove useless argument type in audit_filter_user()Peng Haitao2008-06-24
| | | | | | | The second argument "type" is not used in audit_filter_user(), so I think that type can be removed. If I'm wrong, please tell me. Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] kernel/audit.c: nlh->nlmsg_type is gotten more than oncePeng Haitao2008-06-24
| | | | | | | The first argument "nlh->nlmsg_type" of audit_receive_filter() should be modified to "msg_type" in audit_receive_msg(). Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [patch 1/1] audit_send_reply(): fix error-path memory leakAndrew Morton2008-05-17
| | | | | | | | | Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10663 Reporter: Daniel Marjamki <danielm77@spray.se> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [patch 2/2] Use find_task_by_vpid in audit codePavel Emelyanov2008-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The pid to lookup a task by is passed inside audit code via netlink message. Thanks to Denis Lunev, netlink packets are now (since 2.6.24) _always_ processed in the context of the sending task. So this is correct to lookup the task with find_task_by_vpid() here. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH 2/2] audit: fix sparse shadowed variable warningsHarvey Harrison2008-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use msglen as the identifier. kernel/audit.c:724:10: warning: symbol 'len' shadows an earlier one kernel/audit.c:575:8: originally declared here Don't use ino_f to check the inode field at the end of the functions. kernel/auditfilter.c:429:22: warning: symbol 'f' shadows an earlier one kernel/auditfilter.c:420:21: originally declared here kernel/auditfilter.c:542:22: warning: symbol 'f' shadows an earlier one kernel/auditfilter.c:529:21: originally declared here i always used as a counter for a for loop and initialized to zero before use. Eliminate the inner i variables. kernel/auditsc.c:1295:8: warning: symbol 'i' shadows an earlier one kernel/auditsc.c:1152:6: originally declared here kernel/auditsc.c:1320:7: warning: symbol 'i' shadows an earlier one kernel/auditsc.c:1152:6: originally declared here Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Audit: standardize string audit interfacesEric Paris2008-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch standardized the string auditing interfaces. No userspace changes will be visible and this is all just cleanup and consistancy work. We have the following string audit interfaces to use: void audit_log_n_hex(struct audit_buffer *ab, const unsigned char *buf, size_t len); void audit_log_n_string(struct audit_buffer *ab, const char *buf, size_t n); void audit_log_string(struct audit_buffer *ab, const char *buf); void audit_log_n_untrustedstring(struct audit_buffer *ab, const char *string, size_t n); void audit_log_untrustedstring(struct audit_buffer *ab, const char *string); This may be the first step to possibly fixing some of the issues that people have with the string output from the kernel audit system. But we still don't have an agreed upon solution to that problem. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Audit: stop deadlock from signals under loadEric Paris2008-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A deadlock is possible between kauditd and auditd under load if auditd receives a signal. When auditd receives a signal it sends a netlink message to the kernel asking for information about the sender of the signal. In that same context the audit system will attempt to send a netlink message back to the userspace auditd. If kauditd has already filled the socket buffer (see netlink_attachskb()) auditd will now put itself to sleep waiting for room to send the message. Since auditd is responsible for draining that socket we have a deadlock. The fix, since the response from the kernel does not need to be synchronous is to send the signal information back to auditd in a separate thread. And thus auditd can continue to drain the audit queue normally. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Audit: save audit_backlog_limit audit messages in case auditd comes backEric Paris2008-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch causes the kernel audit subsystem to store up to audit_backlog_limit messages for use by auditd if it ever appears sometime in the future in userspace. This is useful to collect audit messages during bootup and even when auditd is stopped. This is NOT a reliable mechanism, it does not ever call audit_panic, nor should it. audit_log_lost()/audit_panic() are called during the normal delivery mechanism. The messages are still sent to printk/syslog as usual and if too many messages appear to be queued they will be silently discarded. I liked doing it by default, but this patch only uses the queue in question if it was booted with audit=1 or if the kernel was built enabling audit by default. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Audit: collect sessionid in netlink messagesEric Paris2008-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | Previously I added sessionid output to all audit messages where it was available but we still didn't know the sessionid of the sender of netlink messages. This patch adds that information to netlink messages so we can audit who sent netlink messages. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Audit: internally use the new LSM audit hooksAhmed S. Darwish2008-04-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Convert Audit to use the new LSM Audit hooks instead of the exported SELinux interface. Basically, use: security_audit_rule_init secuirty_audit_rule_free security_audit_rule_known security_audit_rule_match instad of (respectively) : selinux_audit_rule_init selinux_audit_rule_free audit_rule_has_selinux selinux_audit_rule_match Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* Audit: use new LSM hooks instead of SELinux exportsAhmed S. Darwish2008-04-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Stop using the following exported SELinux interfaces: selinux_get_inode_sid(inode, sid) selinux_get_ipc_sid(ipcp, sid) selinux_get_task_sid(tsk, sid) selinux_sid_to_string(sid, ctx, len) kfree(ctx) and use following generic LSM equivalents respectively: security_inode_getsecid(inode, secid) security_ipc_getsecid*(ipcp, secid) security_task_getsecid(tsk, secid) security_sid_to_secctx(sid, ctx, len) security_release_secctx(ctx, len) Call security_release_secctx only if security_secid_to_secctx succeeded. Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
* audit: silence two kerneldoc warnings in kernel/audit.cDave Jones2008-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Silence two kerneldoc warnings. Warning(kernel/audit.c:1276): No description found for parameter 'string' Warning(kernel/audit.c:1276): No description found for parameter 'len' [also fix a typo for bonus points] Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* audit: netlink socket can be auto-bound to pid other than current->pid (v2)Pavel Emelyanov2008-03-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] drop EOE records from printkSteve Grubb2008-03-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | Hi, While we are looking at the printk issue, I see that its printk'ing the EOE (end of event) records which is really not something that we need in syslog. Its really intended for the realtime audit event stream handled by the audit daemon. So, lets avoid printk'ing that record type. Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [RFC] AUDIT: do not panic when printk loses messagesEric Paris2008-03-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On the latest kernels if one was to load about 15 rules, set the failure state to panic, and then run service auditd stop the kernel will panic. This is because auditd stops, then the script deletes all of the rules. These deletions are sent as audit messages out of the printk kernel interface which is already known to be lossy. These will overun the default kernel rate limiting (10 really fast messages) and will call audit_panic(). The same effect can happen if a slew of avc's come through while auditd is stopped. This can be fixed a number of ways but this patch fixes the problem by just not panicing if auditd is not running. We know printk is lossy and if the user chooses to set the failure mode to panic and tries to use printk we can't make any promises no matter how hard we try, so why try? At least in this way we continue to get lost message accounting and will eventually know that things went bad. The other change is to add a new call to audit_log_lost() if auditd disappears. We already pulled the skb off the queue and couldn't send it so that message is lost. At least this way we will account for the last message and panic if the machine is configured to panic. This code path should only be run if auditd dies for unforeseen reasons. If auditd closes correctly audit_pid will get set to 0 and we won't walk this code path. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* d_path: Make d_path() use a struct pathJan Blunck2008-02-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | d_path() is used on a <dentry,vfsmount> pair. Lets use a struct path to reflect this. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build in mm/memory.c] Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Acked-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* d_path: Use struct path in struct avc_audit_dataJan Blunck2008-02-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | audit_log_d_path() is a d_path() wrapper that is used by the audit code. To use a struct path in audit_log_d_path() I need to embed it into struct avc_audit_data. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [AUDIT] ratelimit printk messages auditEric Paris2008-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | some printk messages from the audit system can become excessive. This patch ratelimits those messages. It was found that messages, such as the audit backlog lost printk message could flood the logs to the point that a machine could take an nmi watchdog hit or otherwise become unresponsive. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
* [patch 2/2] audit: complement va_copy with va_end()Richard Knutsson2008-02-01
| | | | | | | | Complement va_copy() with va_end(). Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* [patch 1/2] kernel/audit.c: warning fixAndrew Morton2008-02-01
| | | | | | | | kernel/audit.c: In function 'audit_log_start': kernel/audit.c:1133: warning: 'serial' may be used uninitialized in this function Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* [AUDIT] create context if auditing was ever enabledEric Paris2008-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | Disabling audit at runtime by auditctl doesn't mean that we can stop allocating contexts for new processes; we don't want to miss them when that sucker is reenabled. (based on work from Al Viro in the RHEL kernel series) Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
* [AUDIT] clean up audit_receive_msg()Eric Paris2008-02-01
| | | | | | | | generally clean up audit_receive_msg() don't free random memory if selinux_sid_to_string fails for some reason. Move generic auditing to a helper function Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
* [AUDIT] make audit=0 really stop audit messagesEric Paris2008-02-01
| | | | | | | | Some audit messages (namely configuration changes) are still emitted even if the audit subsystem has been explicitly disabled. This patch turns those messages off as well. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
* [AUDIT] break large execve argument logging into smaller messagesEric Paris2008-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | execve arguments can be quite large. There is no limit on the number of arguments and a 4G limit on the size of an argument. this patch prints those aruguments in bite sized pieces. a userspace size limitation of 8k was discovered so this keeps messages around 7.5k single arguments larger than 7.5k in length are split into multiple records and can be identified as aX[Y]= Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
* [AUDIT] include audit type in audit message when using printkEric Paris2008-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently audit drops the audit type when an audit message goes through printk instead of the audit deamon. This is a minor annoyance in that the audit type is no longer part of the message and the information the audit type conveys needs to be carried in, or derived from the message data. The attached patch includes the type number as part of the printk. Admittedly it isn't the type name that the audit deamon provides but I think this is better than dropping the type completely. Signed-pff-by: John Johansen <jjohansen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
* [AUDIT]: Increase skb->truesize in audit_expandHerbert Xu2008-01-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The recent UDP patch exposed this bug in the audit code. It was calling pskb_expand_head without increasing skb->truesize. The caller of pskb_expand_head needs to do so because that function is designed to be called in places where truesize is already fixed and therefore it doesn't update its value. Because the audit system is using it in a place where the truesize has not yet been fixed, it needs to update its value manually. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] audit: watching subtreesAl Viro2007-10-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | New kind of audit rule predicates: "object is visible in given subtree". The part that can be sanely implemented, that is. Limitations: * if you have hardlink from outside of tree, you'd better watch it too (or just watch the object itself, obviously) * if you mount something under a watched tree, tell audit that new chunk should be added to watched subtrees * if you umount something in a watched tree and it's still mounted elsewhere, you will get matches on events happening there. New command tells audit to recalculate the trees, trimming such sources of false positives. Note that it's _not_ about path - if something mounted in several places (multiple mount, bindings, different namespaces, etc.), the match does _not_ depend on which one we are using for access. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* whitespace fixes: system auditingDaniel Walker2007-10-18
| | | | | | | | | Just removing white space at the end of lines. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchroniousDenis V. Lunev2007-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch make processing netlink user -> kernel messages synchronious. This change was inspired by the talk with Alexey Kuznetsov about current netlink messages processing. He says that he was badly wrong when introduced asynchronious user -> kernel communication. The call netlink_unicast is the only path to send message to the kernel netlink socket. But, unfortunately, it is also used to send data to the user. Before this change the user message has been attached to the socket queue and sk->sk_data_ready was called. The process has been blocked until all pending messages were processed. The bad thing is that this processing may occur in the arbitrary process context. This patch changes nlk->data_ready callback to get 1 skb and force packet processing right in the netlink_unicast. Kernel -> user path in netlink_unicast remains untouched. EINTR processing for in netlink_run_queue was changed. It forces rtnl_lock drop, but the process remains in the cycle until the message will be fully processed. So, there is no need to use this kludges now. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Support multiple network namespaces with netlinkEric W. Biederman2007-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Each netlink socket will live in exactly one network namespace, this includes the controlling kernel sockets. This patch updates all of the existing netlink protocols to only support the initial network namespace. Request by clients in other namespaces will get -ECONREFUSED. As they would if the kernel did not have the support for that netlink protocol compiled in. As each netlink protocol is updated to be multiple network namespace safe it can register multiple kernel sockets to acquire a presence in the rest of the network namespaces. The implementation in af_netlink is a simple filter implementation at hash table insertion and hash table look up time. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by defaultRafael J. Wysocki2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't care for the freezing of tasks at all. It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is done in this patch. The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable() function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional) change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to describe the freezing of tasks more accurately. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Audit: add TTY input auditingMiloslav Trmac2007-07-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add TTY input auditing, used to audit system administrator's actions. This is required by various security standards such as DCID 6/3 and PCI to provide non-repudiation of administrator's actions and to allow a review of past actions if the administrator seems to overstep their duties or if the system becomes misconfigured for unknown reasons. These requirements do not make it necessary to audit TTY output as well. Compared to an user-space keylogger, this approach records TTY input using the audit subsystem, correlated with other audit events, and it is completely transparent to the user-space application (e.g. the console ioctls still work). TTY input auditing works on a higher level than auditing all system calls within the session, which would produce an overwhelming amount of mostly useless audit events. Add an "audit_tty" attribute, inherited across fork (). Data read from TTYs by process with the attribute is sent to the audit subsystem by the kernel. The audit netlink interface is extended to allow modifying the audit_tty attribute, and to allow sending explanatory audit events from user-space (for example, a shell might send an event containing the final command, after the interactive command-line editing and history expansion is performed, which might be difficult to decipher from the TTY input alone). Because the "audit_tty" attribute is inherited across fork (), it would be set e.g. for sshd restarted within an audited session. To prevent this, the audit_tty attribute is cleared when a process with no open TTY file descriptors (e.g. after daemon startup) opens a TTY. See https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2007-June/msg00000.html for a more detailed rationale document for an older version of this patch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* audit: add spaces on either side of case "..." operator.Robert P. J. Day2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Following the programming advice laid down in the gcc manual, make sure the case "..." operator has spaces on either side. According to: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.2/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case-Ranges: "Be careful: Write spaces around the ..., for otherwise it may be parsed wrong when you use it with integer values." Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override itPatrick McHardy2007-04-26
| | | | | | | | | | Switch cb_lock to mutex and allow netlink kernel users to override it with a subsystem specific mutex for consistent locking in dump callbacks. All netlink_dump_start users have been audited not to rely on any side-effects of the previously used spinlock. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Introduce nlmsg_hdr() helperArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2007-04-26
| | | | | | | | | For the common "(struct nlmsghdr *)skb->data" sequence, so that we reduce the number of direct accesses to skb->data and for consistency with all the other cast skb member helpers. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [SK_BUFF]: Convert skb->tail to sk_buff_data_tArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2007-04-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | So that it is also an offset from skb->head, reduces its size from 8 to 4 bytes on 64bit architectures, allowing us to combine the 4 bytes hole left by the layer headers conversion, reducing struct sk_buff size to 256 bytes, i.e. 4 64byte cachelines, and since the sk_buff slab cache is SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN... :-) Many calculations that previously required that skb->{transport,network, mac}_header be first converted to a pointer now can be done directly, being meaningful as offsets or pointers. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] audit config lockdownSteve Grubb2007-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following patch adds a new mode to the audit system. It uses the audit_enabled config option to introduce the idea of audit enabled, but configuration is immutable. Any attempt to change the configuration while in this mode is audited. To change the audit rules, you'd need to reboot the machine. To use this option, you'd need a modified version of auditctl and use "-e 2". This is intended to go at the end of the audit.rules file for people that want an immutable configuration. This patch also adds "res=" to a number of configuration commands that did not have it before. Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.hNigel Cunningham2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to freezer.h, so that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't require recompiling just about everything. [akpm@osdl.org: fix ueagle driver] Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kauditd_thread warning fixAndrew Morton2006-10-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Squash this warning: kernel/audit.c: In function 'kauditd_thread': kernel/audit.c:367: warning: no return statement in function returning non-void We might as test kthread_should_stop(), although it's not very pointful at present. The code which starts this thread looks racy - the kernel could start multiple threads. Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] selinux: rename selinux_ctxid_to_stringStephen Smalley2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | Rename selinux_ctxid_to_string to selinux_sid_to_string to be consistent with other interfaces. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sanity check audit_bufferAmy Griffis2006-09-11
| | | | | | | | Add sanity checks for NULL audit_buffer consistent with other audit_log* routines. Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] fix oops with CONFIG_AUDIT and !CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALLAmy Griffis2006-08-03
| | | | | | | Always initialize the audit_inode_hash[] so we don't oops on list rules. Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [NETLINK]: Encapsulate eff_cap usage within security framework.Darrel Goeddel2006-06-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch encapsulates the usage of eff_cap (in netlink_skb_params) within the security framework by extending security_netlink_recv to include a required capability parameter and converting all direct usage of eff_caps outside of the lsm modules to use the interface. It also updates the SELinux implementation of the security_netlink_send and security_netlink_recv hooks to take advantage of the sid in the netlink_skb_params struct. This also enables SELinux to perform auditing of netlink capability checks. Please apply, for 2.6.18 if possible. Signed-off-by: Darrel Goeddel <dgoeddel@trustedcs.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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