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audit: printk USER_AVC messages when audit isn't enabled
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When the audit=1 kernel parameter is absent and auditd is not running,
AUDIT_USER_AVC messages are being silently discarded.

AUDIT_USER_AVC messages should be sent to userspace using printk(), as
mentioned in the commit message of 4a4cd63 ("AUDIT: Optimise the
audit-disabled case for discarding user messages").

When audit_enabled is 0, audit_receive_msg() discards all user messages
except for AUDIT_USER_AVC messages. However, audit_log_common_recv_msg()
refuses to allocate an audit_buffer if audit_enabled is 0. The fix is to
special case AUDIT_USER_AVC messages in both functions.

It looks like commit 50397bd ("[AUDIT] clean up audit_receive_msg()")
introduced this bug.

Cc: <[email protected]> # v2.6.25+
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Paris <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <[email protected]>
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tyhicks authored and eparis committed Nov 5, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ static int audit_log_common_recv_msg(struct audit_buffer **ab, u16 msg_type)
int rc = 0;
uid_t uid = from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid());

if (!audit_enabled) {
if (!audit_enabled && msg_type != AUDIT_USER_AVC) {
*ab = NULL;
return rc;
}
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