linux/kernel/auditsc.c, branch v2.6.34

audit: preface audit printk with audit

2010-04-05T20:19:45Z

There have been a number of reports of people seeing the message: "name_count maxed, losing inode data: dev=00:05, inode=3185" in dmesg. These usually lead to people reporting problems to the filesystem group who are in turn clueless what they mean. Eventually someone finds me and I explain what is going on and that these come from the audit system. The basics of the problem is that the audit subsystem never expects a single syscall to 'interact' (for some wish washy meaning of interact) with more than 20 inodes. But in fact some operations like loading kernel modules can cause changes to lots of inodes in debugfs. There are a couple real fixes being bandied about including removing the fixed compile time limit of 20 or not auditing changes in debugfs (or both) but neither are small and obvious so I am not sending them for immediate inclusion (I hope Al forwards a real solution next devel window). In the meantime this patch simply adds 'audit' to the beginning of the crap message so if a user sees it, they come blame me first and we can talk about what it means and make sure we understand all of the reasons it can happen and make sure this gets solved correctly in the long run. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32Z

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

Lose the first argument of audit_inode_child()

2010-02-08T19:38:36Z

it's always equal to ->d_name.name of the second argument Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Sanitize f_flags helpers

2009-12-22T17:27:34Z

* pull ACC_MODE to fs.h; we have several copies all over the place * nightmarish expression calculating f_mode by f_flags deserves a helper too (OPEN_FMODE(flags)) Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Audit: rearrange audit_context to save 16 bytes per struct

2009-09-24T07:50:26Z

pahole pointed out that on x86_64 struct audit_context can be rearrainged to save 16 bytes per struct. Since we have an audit_context per task this can acually be a pretty significant gain. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Fix rule eviction order for AUDIT_DIR

2009-06-24T04:02:38Z

If syscall removes the root of subtree being watched, we definitely do not want the rules refering that subtree to be destroyed without the syscall in question having a chance to match them. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Audit: clean up all op= output to include string quoting

2009-06-24T04:00:52Z

A number of places in the audit system we send an op= followed by a string that includes spaces. Somehow this works but it's just wrong. This patch moves all of those that I could find to be quoted. Example: Change From: type=CONFIG_CHANGE msg=audit(1244666690.117:31): auid=0 ses=1 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:auditctl_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 op=remove rule key="number2" list=4 res=0 Change To: type=CONFIG_CHANGE msg=audit(1244666690.117:31): auid=0 ses=1 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:auditctl_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 op="remove rule" key="number2" list=4 res=0 Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

audit: seperate audit inode watches into a subfile

2009-06-24T03:50:59Z

In preparation for converting audit to use fsnotify instead of inotify we seperate the inode watching code into it's own file. This is similar to how the audit tree watching code is already seperated into audit_tree.c Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

Audit: better estimation of execve record length

2009-06-24T03:50:34Z

The audit execve record splitting code estimates the length of the message generated. But it forgot to include the "" that wrap each string in its estimation. This means that execve messages with lots of tiny (1-2 byte) arguments could still cause records greater than 8k to be emitted. Simply fix the estimate. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

Audit: remove spaces from audit_log_d_path

2009-04-05T17:49:04Z

audit_log_d_path had spaces in the strings which would be emitted on the error paths. This patch simply replaces those spaces with an _ or removes the needless spaces entirely. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris Signed-off-by: Al Viro