Re: audit: EXECVE record - removed bogus newline

[Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 15:38 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> EXECVE records contain a newline after every argument. auditd converts
> "\n" to " " so you cannot see newlines even in raw logs, but they're
> there nevertheless. If you're not using auditd, you need to work round
> them. These '\n' chars are can be easily replaced by spaces when
> creating record in kernel. Note there is no need for trailing '\n' in
> an audit record. 

While I completely agree the \n was my mistake and should be
dropped/fixed can you fix one more thing and look at another?  First
arg_num_len is being miscalculated since I included the \n in that
calculation (might be the only place....) and I remember not wanting to
follow convention and put the space at the beginning of the aX= for some
reason.  If you add thousands of arguments so this is larger than
MAX_EXECVE_AUDIT_LEN do you end up with an extra space somewhere in the
second EXECVE record?  Or maybe it was a single argument that was larger
than the max, can't remember which, but I do remember having a random
extra space (maybe we'd rather have that for consistency?)

-Eric

> 
> record before this patch:
> "type=EXECVE msg=audit(1231421801.566:31): argc=4 a0=\"./test\"\na1=\"a\"\na2=\"b\"\na3=\"c\"\n"
> 
> record after this patch:
> "type=EXECVE msg=audit(1231421801.566:31): argc=4 a0=\"./test\" a1=\"a\" a2=\"b\" a3=\"c\""
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
> ---
>  kernel/auditsc.c |    7 +++----
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
> index 8cbddff..c7012e0 100644
> --- a/kernel/auditsc.c
> +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
> @@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@ static int audit_log_single_execve_arg(struct audit_context *context,
>  		 * so we can be sure nothing was lost.
>  		 */
>  		if ((i == 0) && (too_long))
> -			audit_log_format(*ab, "a%d_len=%zu ", arg_num,
> +			audit_log_format(*ab, " a%d_len=%zu", arg_num,
>  					 has_cntl ? 2*len : len);
>  
>  		/*
> @@ -1129,7 +1129,7 @@ static int audit_log_single_execve_arg(struct audit_context *context,
>  		buf[to_send] = '\0';
>  
>  		/* actually log it */
> -		audit_log_format(*ab, "a%d", arg_num);
> +		audit_log_format(*ab, " a%d", arg_num);
>  		if (too_long)
>  			audit_log_format(*ab, "[%d]", i);
>  		audit_log_format(*ab, "=");
> @@ -1137,7 +1137,6 @@ static int audit_log_single_execve_arg(struct audit_context *context,
>  			audit_log_n_hex(*ab, buf, to_send);
>  		else
>  			audit_log_format(*ab, "\"%s\"", buf);
> -		audit_log_format(*ab, "\n");
>  
>  		p += to_send;
>  		len_left -= to_send;
> @@ -1165,7 +1164,7 @@ static void audit_log_execve_info(struct audit_context *context,
>  
>  	p = (const char __user *)axi->mm->arg_start;
>  
> -	audit_log_format(*ab, "argc=%d ", axi->argc);
> +	audit_log_format(*ab, "argc=%d", axi->argc);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * we need some kernel buffer to hold the userspace args.  Just