[PATCH v1 2/2] audit: record AUDIT_ANOM_* events regardless of presence of rules

When no audit rules are in place, AUDIT_ANOM_{LINK,CREAT} events reported in audit_log_path_denied() are unconditionally dropped due to an explicit check for the existence of any audit rules. Given this is a report of a security violation, allow it to be recorded regardless of the existence of any audit rules. To test, mkdir -p /root/tmp chmod 1777 /root/tmp touch /root/tmp/test.txt useradd test chown test /root/tmp/test.txt {echo C0644 12 test.txt; printf 'hello\ntest1\n'; printf \\000;} | \ scp -t /root/tmp Check with ausearch -m ANOM_CREAT -ts recent Link: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-9065 Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb(a)redhat.com&gt; --- kernel/audit.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index 53e3bddcc327..0cf2827882fc 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -2285,7 +2285,7 @@ void audit_log_path_denied(int type, const char *operation) { struct audit_buffer *ab; - if (!audit_enabled || audit_dummy_context()) + if (!audit_enabled) return; /* Generate log with subject, operation, outcome. */ -- 2.43.5