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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Cc: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Format specifier issue when building kernel
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 12:34:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5863749.irKmN4I7yS@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131101162455.GB24236@madcap2.tricolour.ca>

On Friday, November 01, 2013 12:24:55 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:25:55PM -0700, William Roberts wrote:
> > > +                       if (msg_type != AUDIT_USER_TTY) {
> > > +                               char fmt[64];
> > > +                               strcat(fmt, " msg='%.");
> > > +                               strcat(fmt, "AUDIT_MESSAGE_TEXT_MAX");
> > > +                               strcat(fmt, "s'");
> > > +                               audit_log_format(ab, fmt, (char *)data);
> > > +                       } else {
> > 
> > I am ok with this. In fact I was going to do this the first time, but I
> > thought their would be some explicit reason to avoid the additional
> > run time overhead as the concat could be made at compile time.
> 
> Ok, this was in danger of starting with fmt in an unknown state.  Latest
> patch:
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
> @@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ DEFINE_MUTEX(audit_cmd_mutex);
>   * should be at least that large. */
>  #define AUDIT_BUFSIZ 1024
> 
> +char usermsg_format[64] = "";

You might want this ^^^  to be static so its not global in scope.

-Steve


>  /* AUDIT_MAXFREE is the number of empty audit_buffers we keep on the
>   * audit_freelist.  Doing so eliminates many kmalloc/kfree calls. */
>  #define AUDIT_MAXFREE  (2*NR_CPUS)
> @@ -714,11 +716,15 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb,
> struct nlmsghdr *nlh) break;
>  			}
>  			audit_log_common_recv_msg(&ab, msg_type);
> -			if (msg_type != AUDIT_USER_TTY)
> -				audit_log_format(ab,
> -						 " msg='%.AUDIT_MESSAGE_TEXT_MAXs'",
> +			if (msg_type != AUDIT_USER_TTY) {
> +				if (unlikely(usermsg_format[0] == 0))
> +					snprintf(usermsg_format,
> +						sizeof(usermsg_format),
> +						" msg=\'%%.%ds\'",
> +						AUDIT_MESSAGE_TEXT_MAX);
> +				audit_log_format(ab, usermsg_format,
>  						 (char *)data);
> -			else {
> +			} else {
>  				int size;
> 
>  				audit_log_format(ab, " data=");
> 
> - RGB
> 
> --
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> Kernel Security
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-01 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-28 23:30 Format specifier issue when building kernel William Roberts
2013-10-28 23:31 ` William Roberts
2013-10-29  1:35   ` Richard Guy Briggs
2013-10-29  1:43     ` William Roberts
2013-10-29  3:55       ` William Roberts
2013-10-31 18:45         ` Richard Guy Briggs
2013-10-31 19:25           ` William Roberts
2013-11-01 16:24             ` Richard Guy Briggs
2013-11-01 16:34               ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2013-11-01 16:38                 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2013-11-01 19:57                   ` Richard Guy Briggs
2013-11-01 22:10                     ` William Roberts
2013-11-01 22:20                       ` David Rebman
2013-11-01 22:22                         ` William Roberts

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