- task-watchers-register-audit-task-watcher.patch removed from -mm tree

The patch titled Task watchers: register audit task watcher has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is task-watchers-register-audit-task-watcher.patch This patch was dropped because it was nacked by the maintainer ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Task watchers: register audit task watcher From: Matt Helsley <matthltc(a)us.ibm.com&gt; Adapt audit to use task watchers. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc(a)us.ibm.com&gt; Cc: Al Viro <viro(a)zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt; Cc: <linux-audit(a)redhat.com&gt; Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm(a)osdl.org&gt; --- kernel/audit.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- kernel/exit.c | 3 --- kernel/fork.c | 7 +------ 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/audit.c~task-watchers-register-audit-task-watcher kernel/audit.c --- a/kernel/audit.c~task-watchers-register-audit-task-watcher +++ a/kernel/audit.c @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/err.h> #include <linux/kthread.h> +#include <linux/notifier.h> #include <linux/audit.h> @@ -67,6 +68,26 @@ static int audit_initialized; /* No syscall auditing will take place unless audit_enabled != 0. */ int audit_enabled; +static int audit_task(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long val, void *t) +{ + struct task_struct *tsk = t; + + switch(get_watch_event(val)) { + case WATCH_TASK_INIT: + /* Hack: -EFOO sets NOTIFY_STOP_MASK */ + return audit_alloc(tsk); + case WATCH_TASK_FREE: + if (unlikely(tsk->audit_context)) + audit_free(tsk); + default: + return NOTIFY_DONE; + } +} + +static struct notifier_block __read_mostly audit_watch_tasks_nb = { + .notifier_call = audit_task, +}; + /* Default state when kernel boots without any parameters. */ static int audit_default; @@ -734,8 +755,10 @@ static int __init audit_enable(char *str printk(KERN_INFO "audit: %s%s\n", audit_default ? "enabled" : "disabled", audit_initialized ? "" : " (after initialization)"); - if (audit_initialized) + if (audit_initialized) { audit_enabled = audit_default; + register_task_watcher(&audit_watch_tasks_nb); + } return 1; } diff -puN kernel/exit.c~task-watchers-register-audit-task-watcher kernel/exit.c --- a/kernel/exit.c~task-watchers-register-audit-task-watcher +++ a/kernel/exit.c @@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ #include <linux/futex.h> #include <linux/compat.h> #include <linux/pipe_fs_i.h> -#include <linux/audit.h> /* for audit_free() */ #include <linux/resource.h> #include <linux/notifier.h> @@ -907,8 +906,6 @@ fastcall NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long co if (unlikely(tsk->compat_robust_list)) compat_exit_robust_list(tsk); #endif - if (unlikely(tsk->audit_context)) - audit_free(tsk); tsk->exit_code = code; taskstats_exit_send(tsk, tidstats, group_dead, mycpu); taskstats_exit_free(tidstats); diff -puN kernel/fork.c~task-watchers-register-audit-task-watcher kernel/fork.c --- a/kernel/fork.c~task-watchers-register-audit-task-watcher +++ a/kernel/fork.c @@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ #include <linux/notifier.h> #include <linux/ptrace.h> #include <linux/mount.h> -#include <linux/audit.h> #include <linux/profile.h> #include <linux/rmap.h> #include <linux/acct.h> @@ -1091,11 +1090,9 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process( if ((retval = security_task_alloc(p))) goto bad_fork_cleanup_policy; - if ((retval = audit_alloc(p))) - goto bad_fork_cleanup_security; /* copy all the process information */ if ((retval = copy_semundo(clone_flags, p))) - goto bad_fork_cleanup_audit; + goto bad_fork_cleanup_security; if ((retval = copy_files(clone_flags, p))) goto bad_fork_cleanup_semundo; if ((retval = copy_fs(clone_flags, p))) @@ -1273,8 +1270,6 @@ bad_fork_cleanup_files: exit_files(p); /* blocking */ bad_fork_cleanup_semundo: exit_sem(p); -bad_fork_cleanup_audit: - audit_free(p); bad_fork_cleanup_security: security_task_free(p); notify_result = notify_watchers(WATCH_TASK_FREE, p); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from matthltc(a)us.ibm.com are kernel-bug-fixing-for-kernel-kmodc.patch task-watchers-register-audit-task-watcher.patch task-watchers-register-per-task-delay-accounting.patch task-watchers-register-profile-as-a-task-watcher.patch task-watchers-add-support-for-per-task-watchers.patch task-watchers-register-semundo-task-watcher.patch task-watchers-register-per-task-semundo-watcher.patch ipc-replace-kmalloc-and-memset-in-get_undo_list-with-kzalloc.patch