Currently audit=0 on the kernel command line does absolutely nothing. Audit always loads and always uses its resources such as creating the kernel netlink socket. This patch causes audit=0 to actually disable audit. Audit will use no resources and starting the userspace auditd daemon will not cause the kernel audit system to activate. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis(a)redhat.com&gt; --- kernel/audit.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index 4414e93..d8646c2 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -61,8 +61,11 @@ #include "audit.h" -/* No auditing will take place until audit_initialized != 0. +/* No auditing will take place until audit_initialized == AUDIT_INITIALIZED. * (Initialization happens after skb_init is called.) */ +#define AUDIT_DISABLED -1 +#define AUDIT_UNINITIALIZED 0 +#define AUDIT_INITIALIZED 1 static int audit_initialized; #define AUDIT_OFF 0 @@ -965,6 +968,9 @@ static int __init audit_init(void) { int i; + if (audit_initialized == AUDIT_DISABLED) + return 0; + printk(KERN_INFO "audit: initializing netlink socket (%s)\n", audit_default ? "enabled" : "disabled"); audit_sock = netlink_kernel_create(&init_net, NETLINK_AUDIT, 0, @@ -976,7 +982,7 @@ static int __init audit_init(void) skb_queue_head_init(&audit_skb_queue); skb_queue_head_init(&audit_skb_hold_queue); - audit_initialized = 1; + audit_initialized = AUDIT_INITIALIZED; audit_enabled = audit_default; audit_ever_enabled |= !!audit_default; @@ -999,13 +1005,21 @@ __initcall(audit_init); static int __init audit_enable(char *str) { audit_default = !!simple_strtol(str, NULL, 0); - printk(KERN_INFO "audit: %s%s\n", - audit_default ? "enabled" : "disabled", - audit_initialized ? "" : " (after initialization)"); - if (audit_initialized) { + if (!audit_default) + audit_initialized = AUDIT_DISABLED; + + printk(KERN_INFO "audit: %s", audit_default ? "enabled" : "disabled"); + + if (audit_initialized == AUDIT_INITIALIZED) { audit_enabled = audit_default; audit_ever_enabled |= !!audit_default; + } else if (audit_initialized == AUDIT_UNINITIALIZED) { + printk(" (after initialization)"); + } else { + printk(" (until reboot)"); } + printk("\n"); + return 1; } @@ -1146,7 +1160,7 @@ struct audit_buffer *audit_log_start(struct audit_context *ctx, gfp_t gfp_mask, int reserve; unsigned long timeout_start = jiffies; - if (!audit_initialized) + if (audit_initialized != AUDIT_INITIALIZED) return NULL; if (unlikely(audit_filter_type(type)))