Re: [PATCH ghak59 V2 5/6] audit: kill trees before logging syscall exit for exit/free

From: Paul Moore
Date: Mon Nov 19 2018 - 11:32:44 EST


On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 3:51 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The EOE record was being issued prior to the pruning of the killed_tree
> list.
>
> Move the kill_trees call before the audit_log_exit call in
> __audit_free() and __audit_syscall_exit() so that the user library
> doesn't leave out any appended pruned trees CONFIG_CHANGE records due to
> the EOE flagging the end of the event.
>
> See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/50
> See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/59
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/auditsc.c | 9 ++++-----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

This patch and patch 4/6 should be squashed together.

> diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
> index 986c5ce..55fd2a3 100644
> --- a/kernel/auditsc.c
> +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
> @@ -1482,6 +1482,8 @@ void __audit_free(struct task_struct *tsk)
> if (!context)
> return;
>
> + if (!list_empty(&context->killed_trees))
> + audit_kill_trees(context);
> /* Check for system calls that do not go through the exit
> * function (e.g., exit_group), then free context block.
> * We use GFP_ATOMIC here because we might be doing this
> @@ -1489,8 +1491,6 @@ void __audit_free(struct task_struct *tsk)
> /* that can happen only if we are called from do_exit() */
> if (context->in_syscall && context->current_state == AUDIT_RECORD_CONTEXT)
> audit_log_exit(context, tsk);
> - if (!list_empty(&context->killed_trees))
> - audit_kill_trees(context);
>
> audit_free_context(context);
> }
> @@ -1570,15 +1570,14 @@ void __audit_syscall_exit(int success, long return_code)
> if (!context)
> return;
>
> + if (!list_empty(&context->killed_trees))
> + audit_kill_trees(context);
> if (context->in_syscall && context->current_state == AUDIT_RECORD_CONTEXT)
> audit_log_exit(context, current);
>
> context->in_syscall = 0;
> context->prio = context->state == AUDIT_RECORD_CONTEXT ? ~0ULL : 0;
>
> - if (!list_empty(&context->killed_trees))
> - audit_kill_trees(context);
> -
> audit_free_names(context);
> unroll_tree_refs(context, NULL, 0);
> audit_free_aux(context);
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>


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