Re: [PATCH ghak59 V3 2/4] audit: add syscall information to CONFIG_CHANGE records

[Paul Moore]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 5:18 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Tie syscall information to all CONFIG_CHANGE calls since they are all a
> result of user actions.
>
> Exclude user records from syscall context:
> Since the function audit_log_common_recv_msg() is shared by a number of
> AUDIT_CONFIG_CHANGE and the entire range of AUDIT_USER_* record types,
> and since the AUDIT_CONFIG_CHANGE message type has been converted to a
> syscall accompanied record type, special-case the AUDIT_USER_* range of
> messages so they remain standalone records.
>
> See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/59
> See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/50
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/audit.c          | 27 +++++++++++++++++++--------
>  kernel/audit_fsnotify.c |  2 +-
>  kernel/audit_tree.c     |  2 +-
>  kernel/audit_watch.c    |  2 +-
>  kernel/auditfilter.c    |  2 +-
>  5 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
> index 0e8026423fbd..a321fea94cc6 100644
> --- a/kernel/audit.c
> +++ b/kernel/audit.c
> @@ -1072,6 +1073,16 @@ static void audit_log_common_recv_msg(struct audit_buffer **ab, u16 msg_type)
>         audit_log_task_context(*ab);
>  }
>
> +static inline void audit_log_user_recv_msg(struct audit_buffer **ab, u16 msg_type)
> +{
> +       audit_log_common_recv_msg(NULL, ab, msg_type);
> +}

This makes sense because this is used by "user" records ...

> +static inline void audit_log_config_change_alt(struct audit_buffer **ab)
> +{
> +       audit_log_common_recv_msg(audit_context(), ab, AUDIT_CONFIG_CHANGE);
> +}

... and I don't believe this makes sense because there is no real
logical grouping with the callers like there is for
audit_log_user_recv_msg().

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com