user/sven/linux.git/kernel/audit.c, branch v2.6.23.3

Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default

2007-07-17T17:23:02Z

Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't care for the freezing of tasks at all. It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is done in this patch. The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable() function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional) change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to describe the freezing of tasks more accurately. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Gautham R Shenoy Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Audit: add TTY input auditing

2007-07-16T16:05:47Z

Add TTY input auditing, used to audit system administrator's actions. This is required by various security standards such as DCID 6/3 and PCI to provide non-repudiation of administrator's actions and to allow a review of past actions if the administrator seems to overstep their duties or if the system becomes misconfigured for unknown reasons. These requirements do not make it necessary to audit TTY output as well. Compared to an user-space keylogger, this approach records TTY input using the audit subsystem, correlated with other audit events, and it is completely transparent to the user-space application (e.g. the console ioctls still work). TTY input auditing works on a higher level than auditing all system calls within the session, which would produce an overwhelming amount of mostly useless audit events. Add an "audit_tty" attribute, inherited across fork (). Data read from TTYs by process with the attribute is sent to the audit subsystem by the kernel. The audit netlink interface is extended to allow modifying the audit_tty attribute, and to allow sending explanatory audit events from user-space (for example, a shell might send an event containing the final command, after the interactive command-line editing and history expansion is performed, which might be difficult to decipher from the TTY input alone). Because the "audit_tty" attribute is inherited across fork (), it would be set e.g. for sshd restarted within an audited session. To prevent this, the audit_tty attribute is cleared when a process with no open TTY file descriptors (e.g. after daemon startup) opens a TTY. See https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2007-June/msg00000.html for a more detailed rationale document for an older version of this patch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Miloslav Trmac Cc: Al Viro Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Paul Fulghum Cc: Casey Schaufler Cc: Steve Grubb Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

audit: add spaces on either side of case "..." operator.

2007-05-08T18:15:09Z

Following the programming advice laid down in the gcc manual, make sure the case "..." operator has spaces on either side. According to: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.2/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case-Ranges: "Be careful: Write spaces around the ..., for otherwise it may be parsed wrong when you use it with integer values." Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override it

2007-04-26T05:29:03Z

Switch cb_lock to mutex and allow netlink kernel users to override it with a subsystem specific mutex for consistent locking in dump callbacks. All netlink_dump_start users have been audited not to rely on any side-effects of the previously used spinlock. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NETLINK]: Introduce nlmsg_hdr() helper

2007-04-26T05:26:34Z

For the common "(struct nlmsghdr *)skb->data" sequence, so that we reduce the number of direct accesses to skb->data and for consistency with all the other cast skb member helpers. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[SK_BUFF]: Convert skb->tail to sk_buff_data_t

2007-04-26T05:26:28Z

So that it is also an offset from skb->head, reduces its size from 8 to 4 bytes on 64bit architectures, allowing us to combine the 4 bytes hole left by the layer headers conversion, reducing struct sk_buff size to 256 bytes, i.e. 4 64byte cachelines, and since the sk_buff slab cache is SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN... :-) Many calculations that previously required that skb->{transport,network, mac}_header be first converted to a pointer now can be done directly, being meaningful as offsets or pointers. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PATCH] audit config lockdown

2007-02-18T02:30:12Z

The following patch adds a new mode to the audit system. It uses the audit_enabled config option to introduce the idea of audit enabled, but configuration is immutable. Any attempt to change the configuration while in this mode is audited. To change the audit rules, you'd need to reboot the machine. To use this option, you'd need a modified version of auditctl and use "-e 2". This is intended to go at the end of the audit.rules file for people that want an immutable configuration. This patch also adds "res=" to a number of configuration commands that did not have it before. Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h

2006-12-07T16:39:27Z

Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to freezer.h, so that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't require recompiling just about everything. [akpm@osdl.org: fix ueagle driver] Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Pavel Machek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] kauditd_thread warning fix

2006-10-06T15:53:39Z

Squash this warning: kernel/audit.c: In function 'kauditd_thread': kernel/audit.c:367: warning: no return statement in function returning non-void We might as test kthread_should_stop(), although it's not very pointful at present. The code which starts this thread looks racy - the kernel could start multiple threads. Cc: Al Viro Cc: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] selinux: rename selinux_ctxid_to_string

2006-09-26T15:48:52Z

Rename selinux_ctxid_to_string to selinux_sid_to_string to be consistent with other interfaces. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley Acked-by: James Morris Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds