Re: [PATCH 4/5] audit: anchor all pid references in the initialpid namespace

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Dec 30 2013 - 13:05:57 EST


On 12/23, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
>
> Store and log all PIDs with reference to the initial PID namespace and
> use the access functions task_pid_nr() and task_tgid_nr() for task->pid
> and task->tgid rather than access them directly.

At first glance this patch looks like a good cleanup, but...

> @@ -429,6 +429,19 @@ static struct audit_entry *audit_data_to_entry(struct audit_rule_data *data,
> f->val = 0;
> }
>
> + if ((f->type == AUDIT_PID) || (f->type == AUDIT_PPID)) {
> + struct pid *pid;
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + pid = find_vpid(f->val);
> + if (!pid) {
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> + err = -ESRCH;
> + goto exit_free;
> + }
> + f->val = pid_nr(pid);
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> + }

I do not really understand this change, but this doesn't matter, I do
not understand audit.

However, I think this deserves a separate patch with the changelog.

> @@ -278,9 +278,12 @@ static void dump_common_audit_data(struct audit_buffer *ab,
> }
> case LSM_AUDIT_DATA_TASK:
> tsk = a->u.tsk;
> - if (tsk && tsk->pid) {
> - audit_log_format(ab, " pid=%d comm=", tsk->pid);
> - audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, tsk->comm);
> + if (tsk) {
> + pid_t pid = task_pid_nr(tsk);
> + if (pid) {
> + audit_log_format(ab, " pid=%d comm=", pid);
> + audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, tsk->comm);

Just curious, is it really possible that a->u.tsk is an idle thread?

Oleg.

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