regs_return_value for some architectures like arm64 simply retrieve register value from pt_regs without sign extension in 32-bit compatible case and cause audit to have false syscall return code. For example, 32-bit -13 would be treated as 4294967283 below.
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1611110715.887:582): arch=40000028 syscall=322 success=yes exit=4294967283 We just added proper sign extension in syscall_get_return_value which should be used instead. Signed-off-by: He Zhe <zhe...@windriver.com> --- include/linux/audit.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/audit.h b/include/linux/audit.h index 82b7c1116a85..135adbe22c19 100644 --- a/include/linux/audit.h +++ b/include/linux/audit.h @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ static inline void audit_syscall_exit(void *pt_regs) { if (unlikely(audit_context())) { int success = is_syscall_success(pt_regs); - long return_code = regs_return_value(pt_regs); + long return_code = syscall_get_return_value(current, pt_regs); __audit_syscall_exit(success, return_code); } -- 2.17.1