Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] audit: ensure that 'audit=1' actually enables audit for PID 1

From: Paul Moore <paul(a)paul-moore.com&gt; Prior to this patch we enabled audit in audit_init(), which is too late for PID 1 as the standard initcalls are run after the PID 1 task is forked. This means that we never allocate an audit_context (see audit_alloc()) for PID 1 and therefore miss a lot of audit events generated by PID 1. This patch enables audit as early as possible to help ensure that when PID 1 is forked it can allocate an audit_context if required.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul(a)paul-moore.com&gt; --- kernel/audit.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index cb744085ea8d..33b00ec2157f 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -85,13 +85,13 @@ static int audit_initialized; #define AUDIT_OFF 0 #define AUDIT_ON 1 #define AUDIT_LOCKED 2 -u32 audit_enabled; -u32 audit_ever_enabled; +u32 audit_enabled = AUDIT_OFF; +u32 audit_ever_enabled = !!AUDIT_OFF; EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(audit_enabled); /* Default state when kernel boots without any parameters. */ -static u32 audit_default; +static u32 audit_default = AUDIT_OFF; /* If auditing cannot proceed, audit_failure selects what happens. */ static u32 audit_failure = AUDIT_FAIL_PRINTK; @@ -1548,8 +1548,6 @@ static int __init audit_init(void) register_pernet_subsys(&audit_net_ops); audit_initialized = AUDIT_INITIALIZED; - audit_enabled = audit_default; - audit_ever_enabled |= !!audit_default; kauditd_task = kthread_run(kauditd_thread, NULL, "kauditd"); if (IS_ERR(kauditd_task)) { @@ -1571,6 +1569,8 @@ static int __init audit_enable(char *str) audit_default = !!simple_strtol(str, NULL, 0); if (!audit_default) audit_initialized = AUDIT_DISABLED; + audit_enabled = audit_default; + audit_ever_enabled = !!audit_enabled; pr_info("%s\n", audit_default ? "enabled (after initialization)" : "disabled (until reboot)"); -- Linux-audit mailing list Linux-audit(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit