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audit: ensure that 'audit=1' actually enables audit for PID 1
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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.

Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <[email protected]>
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pcmoore committed Nov 10, 2017
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10 changes: 5 additions & 5 deletions kernel/audit.c
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Expand Up @@ -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;
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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)) {
Expand All @@ -1572,6 +1570,8 @@ 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)");
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