[PATCH 4/7] audit: remove CONFIG_AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE

After trying to use this feature in Fedora we found the hard coding policy like this into the kernel was a bad idea. Surprise surprise. We ran into these problems because it was impossible to launch a container as a logged in user and run a login daemon inside that container. This reverts back to the old behavior before this option was added. The option will be re-added in a userspace selectable manor such that userspace can choose when it is and when it is not appropriate. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis(a)redhat.com&gt; --- init/Kconfig | 14 -------------- kernel/auditsc.c | 10 ++++------ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 5341d72..2396945 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -272,20 +272,6 @@ config AUDIT_TREE depends on AUDITSYSCALL select FSNOTIFY -config AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE - bool "Make audit loginuid immutable" - depends on AUDIT - help - The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires - CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions - but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never - previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central - process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older - systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and - start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows - one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks, - but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems. - source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" source "kernel/time/Kconfig" diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c index f260281..bbc5a4f 100644 --- a/kernel/auditsc.c +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c @@ -1966,15 +1966,13 @@ static atomic_t session_id = ATOMIC_INIT(0); static int audit_set_loginuid_perm(kuid_t loginuid) { -#ifdef CONFIG_AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE /* if we are unset, we don't need privs */ if (!audit_loginuid_set(current)) return 0; -#else /* CONFIG_AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE */ - if (capable(CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL)) - return 0; -#endif /* CONFIG_AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE */ - return -EPERM; + /* it is set, you need permission */ + if (!capable(CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL)) + return -EPERM; + return 0; } static void audit_log_set_loginuid(kuid_t koldloginuid, kuid_t kloginuid, -- 1.8.2.1