Re: [PATCH] fixup! audit: try harder to send to auditd upon netlink failure

[Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>]

On Friday, September 18, 2015 03:52:43 AM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> A bug was introduced by "audit: try harder to send to auditd upon
> netlink failure", caused by incomplete code and a function that expects
> a string and does not accept a format plus arguments.  Create a
> temporary string variable to assemble the output text.  It could be
> merged as a fixup if it is not yet upstream.

Ungh, that's embarrassing; I really should have caught that in review.  Sigh.  
At least it shouldn't cause anything to blow up, just a less than helpful 
message.

I pulled the original patch from linux-audit#next just now, I'll re-add it 
once we sort this out.

Comments below ...

> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
> ---
>  kernel/audit.c |    5 ++++-
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
> index 18cdfe2..60913e6 100644
> --- a/kernel/audit.c
> +++ b/kernel/audit.c
> @@ -420,7 +420,10 @@ restart:
>  		if (audit_pid) {
>  			if (err == -ECONNREFUSED || err == -EPERM
> 
>  			    || ++attempts >= AUDITD_RETRIES) {
> 
> -				audit_log_lost("audit_pid=%d reset");
> +				char s[32];
> +
> +				sprintf(s, "audit_pid=%d reset", audit_pid);
> +				audit_log_lost(s);

Granted 32 bytes should be big enough for the string, but I would feel better 
if we used snprintf() here; make the change and I'll merge the patch with the 
original and push it back to linux-audit#next.

Normally I'm not a big fan of amending patches after they have been committed, 
but in this case it is in the next branch (doing this for upstream or stable-X 
is a big "no") and nothing sits on top of it.

>  				audit_pid = 0;
>  				audit_sock = NULL;
>  			} else {

-- 
paul moore
security @ redhat