user/sven/linux.git/kernel/audit.c, branch v5.4.209

audit: improve audit queue handling when "audit=1" on cmdline

2022-02-08T17:24:26Z

commit f26d04331360d42dbd6b58448bd98e4edbfbe1c5 upstream. When an admin enables audit at early boot via the "audit=1" kernel command line the audit queue behavior is slightly different; the audit subsystem goes to greater lengths to avoid dropping records, which unfortunately can result in problems when the audit daemon is forcibly stopped for an extended period of time. This patch makes a number of changes designed to improve the audit queuing behavior so that leaving the audit daemon in a stopped state for an extended period does not cause a significant impact to the system. - kauditd_send_queue() is now limited to looping through the passed queue only once per call. This not only prevents the function from looping indefinitely when records are returned to the current queue, it also allows any recovery handling in kauditd_thread() to take place when kauditd_send_queue() returns. - Transient netlink send errors seen as -EAGAIN now cause the record to be returned to the retry queue instead of going to the hold queue. The intention of the hold queue is to store, perhaps for an extended period of time, the events which led up to the audit daemon going offline. The retry queue remains a temporary queue intended to protect against transient issues between the kernel and the audit daemon. - The retry queue is now limited by the audit_backlog_limit setting, the same as the other queues. This allows admins to bound the size of all of the audit queues on the system. - kauditd_rehold_skb() now returns records to the end of the hold queue to ensure ordering is preserved in the face of recent changes to kauditd_send_queue(). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 5b52330bbfe63 ("audit: fix auditd/kernel connection state tracking") Fixes: f4b3ee3c85551 ("audit: improve robustness of the audit queue handling") Reported-by: Gaosheng Cui Tested-by: Gaosheng Cui Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs Signed-off-by: Paul Moore Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

audit: ensure userspace is penalized the same as the kernel when under pressure

2022-01-27T08:19:44Z

[ Upstream commit 8f110f530635af44fff1f4ee100ecef0bac62510 ] Due to the audit control mutex necessary for serializing audit userspace messages we haven't been able to block/penalize userspace processes that attempt to send audit records while the system is under audit pressure. The result is that privileged userspace applications have a priority boost with respect to audit as they are not bound by the same audit queue throttling as the other tasks on the system. This patch attempts to restore some balance to the system when under audit pressure by blocking these privileged userspace tasks after they have finished their audit processing, and dropped the audit control mutex, but before they return to userspace. Reported-by: Gaosheng Cui Tested-by: Gaosheng Cui Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs Signed-off-by: Paul Moore Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

audit: improve robustness of the audit queue handling

2021-12-22T08:29:35Z

commit f4b3ee3c85551d2d343a3ba159304066523f730f upstream. If the audit daemon were ever to get stuck in a stopped state the kernel's kauditd_thread() could get blocked attempting to send audit records to the userspace audit daemon. With the kernel thread blocked it is possible that the audit queue could grow unbounded as certain audit record generating events must be exempt from the queue limits else the system enter a deadlock state. This patch resolves this problem by lowering the kernel thread's socket sending timeout from MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT to HZ/10 and tweaks the kauditd_send_queue() function to better manage the various audit queues when connection problems occur between the kernel and the audit daemon. With this patch, the backlog may temporarily grow beyond the defined limits when the audit daemon is stopped and the system is under heavy audit pressure, but kauditd_thread() will continue to make progress and drain the queues as it would for other connection problems. For example, with the audit daemon put into a stopped state and the system configured to audit every syscall it was still possible to shutdown the system without a kernel panic, deadlock, etc.; granted, the system was slow to shutdown but that is to be expected given the extreme pressure of recording every syscall. The timeout value of HZ/10 was chosen primarily through experimentation and this developer's "gut feeling". There is likely no one perfect value, but as this scenario is limited in scope (root privileges would be needed to send SIGSTOP to the audit daemon), it is likely not worth exposing this as a tunable at present. This can always be done at a later date if it proves necessary. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 5b52330bbfe63 ("audit: fix auditd/kernel connection state tracking") Reported-by: Gaosheng Cui Tested-by: Gaosheng Cui Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs Signed-off-by: Paul Moore Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

audit: fix a net reference leak in audit_list_rules_send()

2020-06-22T07:30:59Z

[ Upstream commit 3054d06719079388a543de6adb812638675ad8f5 ] If audit_list_rules_send() fails when trying to create a new thread to send the rules it also fails to cleanup properly, leaking a reference to a net structure. This patch fixes the error patch and renames audit_send_list() to audit_send_list_thread() to better match its cousin, audit_send_reply_thread(). Reported-by: teroincn@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs Signed-off-by: Paul Moore Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

audit: fix a net reference leak in audit_send_reply()

2020-06-22T07:30:59Z

[ Upstream commit a48b284b403a4a073d8beb72d2bb33e54df67fb6 ] If audit_send_reply() fails when trying to create a new thread to send the reply it also fails to cleanup properly, leaking a reference to a net structure. This patch fixes the error path and makes a handful of other cleanups that came up while fixing the code. Reported-by: teroincn@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs Signed-off-by: Paul Moore Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

audit: check the length of userspace generated audit records

2020-04-29T14:33:18Z

commit 763dafc520add02a1f4639b500c509acc0ea8e5b upstream. Commit 756125289285 ("audit: always check the netlink payload length in audit_receive_msg()") fixed a number of missing message length checks, but forgot to check the length of userspace generated audit records. The good news is that you need CAP_AUDIT_WRITE to submit userspace audit records, which is generally only given to trusted processes, so the impact should be limited. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 756125289285 ("audit: always check the netlink payload length in audit_receive_msg()") Reported-by: syzbot+49e69b4d71a420ceda3e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Paul Moore Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

audit: always check the netlink payload length in audit_receive_msg()

2020-03-05T15:43:42Z

commit 756125289285f6e55a03861bf4b6257aa3d19a93 upstream. This patch ensures that we always check the netlink payload length in audit_receive_msg() before we take any action on the payload itself. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: syzbot+399c44bf1f43b8747403@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+e4b12d8d202701f08b6d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Paul Moore Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'audit-pr-20190702' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit

2019-07-09T01:55:42Z

Pull audit updates from Paul Moore: "This pull request is a bit early, but with some vacation time coming up I wanted to send this out now just in case the remote Internet Gods decide not to smile on me once the merge window opens. The patchset for v5.3 is pretty minor this time, the highlights include: - When the audit daemon is sent a signal, ensure we deliver information about the sender even when syscall auditing is not enabled/supported. - Add the ability to filter audit records based on network address family. - Tighten the audit field filtering restrictions on string based fields. - Cleanup the audit field filtering verification code. - Remove a few BUG() calls from the audit code" * tag 'audit-pr-20190702' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit: audit: remove the BUG() calls in the audit rule comparison functions audit: enforce op for string fields audit: add saddr_fam filter field audit: re-structure audit field valid checks audit: deliver signal_info regarless of syscall

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 156

2019-05-30T18:26:35Z

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc 59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-or-later has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1334 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Allison Randal Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

audit: deliver signal_info regarless of syscall

2019-05-22T02:18:25Z

When a process signals the audit daemon (shutdown, rotate, resume, reconfig) but syscall auditing is not enabled, we still want to know the identity of the process sending the signal to the audit daemon. Move audit_signal_info() out of syscall auditing to general auditing but create a new function audit_signal_info_syscall() to take care of the syscall dependent parts for when syscall auditing is enabled. Please see the github kernel audit issue https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/111 Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs Signed-off-by: Paul Moore