[PATCH -next,v2 2/2] audit: return early if the rule has a lower priority

From: Gaosheng Cui
Date: Wed Oct 13 2021 - 05:10:13 EST


It is not necessary for audit_filter_rules() functions to check
audit fileds of the rule with a lower priority, and if we did,
there might be some unintended effects, such as the ctx->ppid
may be changed unexpectedly, so return early if the rule has
a lower priority.

Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/auditsc.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index 42d4a4320526..b517947bfa48 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -470,6 +470,9 @@ static int audit_filter_rules(struct task_struct *tsk,
u32 sid;
unsigned int sessionid;

+ if (ctx && rule->prio <= ctx->prio)
+ return 0;
+
cred = rcu_dereference_check(tsk->cred, tsk == current || task_creation);

for (i = 0; i < rule->field_count; i++) {
@@ -737,8 +740,6 @@ static int audit_filter_rules(struct task_struct *tsk,
}

if (ctx) {
- if (rule->prio <= ctx->prio)
- return 0;
if (rule->filterkey) {
kfree(ctx->filterkey);
ctx->filterkey = kstrdup(rule->filterkey, GFP_ATOMIC);
--
2.30.0