From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758925Ab3LBVBR (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Dec 2013 16:01:17 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:38477 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754074Ab3LBTN2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Dec 2013 14:13:28 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Tyler Hicks , Al Viro , Eric Paris , Kees Cook , Richard Guy Briggs , linux-audit@redhat.com Subject: [PATCH 3.10 081/173] audit: printk USER_AVC messages when audit isnt enabled Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 11:11:04 -0800 Message-Id: <20131202191152.749274714@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.4.3.gca3854a In-Reply-To: <20131202191142.873808297@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20131202191142.873808297@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-8.1.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tyler Hicks commit 0868a5e150bc4c47e7a003367cd755811eb41e0b upstream. When the audit=1 kernel parameter is absent and auditd is not running, AUDIT_USER_AVC messages are being silently discarded. AUDIT_USER_AVC messages should be sent to userspace using printk(), as mentioned in the commit message of 4a4cd633 ("AUDIT: Optimise the audit-disabled case for discarding user messages"). When audit_enabled is 0, audit_receive_msg() discards all user messages except for AUDIT_USER_AVC messages. However, audit_log_common_recv_msg() refuses to allocate an audit_buffer if audit_enabled is 0. The fix is to special case AUDIT_USER_AVC messages in both functions. It looks like commit 50397bd1 ("[AUDIT] clean up audit_receive_msg()") introduced this bug. Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks Cc: Al Viro Cc: Eric Paris Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com Acked-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs Signed-off-by: Eric Paris Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/audit.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ static int audit_log_common_recv_msg(str int rc = 0; uid_t uid = from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid()); - if (!audit_enabled) { + if (!audit_enabled && msg_type != AUDIT_USER_AVC) { *ab = NULL; return rc; }