[PATCH 1/1] audit: fix oops removing watch if audit disabled

Tony Jones
2007-06-20T22:37:58Z

Removing a watched file will oops if audit is disabled (auditctl -e 0).

To reproduce:
- auditctl -e 1
- touch /tmp/foo
- auditctl -w /tmp/foo
- auditctl -e 0
- rm /tmp/foo (or mv)

Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/kernel/auditfilter.c b/kernel/auditfilter.c
index 74cc0fc..ce61f42 100644
--- a/kernel/auditfilter.c
+++ b/kernel/auditfilter.c
@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ static void audit_update_watch(struct au

/* If the update involves invalidating rules, do the inode-based
* filtering now, so we don't omit records. */
- if (invalidating &&
+ if (invalidating && current->audit_context &&
audit_filter_inodes(current, current->audit_context) == AUDIT_RECORD_CONTEXT)
audit_set_auditable(current->audit_context);