On 15/09/08, Eric Paris wrote:
> This is already going to be in the audit log, right? We're going to
> send a CONFIG_CHANGE record with old_pid == the existing auditd. I bet
> it gets delivered to the old auditd.
Actually, delivered by the new auditd is what I'm seeing... (Tested by
running "auditd -f" to have it show up in the debug output and not in
the log file.) I did see it once as two seperate messages, one setting
to zero and the next to the new PID, but that may have been a testing
procedure error...
(Note: Why does auditd run in a terminal with -n or -f not respond to ^C?)
> But why is this a printk(KERN_WARN) ?
Because we're still trying to figure out what is going on... But point
taken, we already should have that information. If it is listed as a
warning it has a better chance of getting reported. What do you suggest
instead?
Eric, thanks for taking the time to review this...
> On Mon, 2015-09-07 at 12:48 -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > Nothing prevents a new auditd starting up and replacing a valid
> > audit_pid when an old auditd is still running, effectively starving out
> > the old auditd since audit_pid no longer points to the old valid auditd.
> >
> > There isn't an easy way to detect if an old auditd is still running on
> > the existing audit_pid other than attempting to send a message to see if
> > it fails. If no message to auditd has been attempted since auditd died
> > unnaturally or got killed, audit_pid will still indicate it is alive.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <r...@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > Note: Would it be too bold to actually block the registration of a new
> > auditd if the netlink_getsockbyportid() call succeeded? Would other
> > checks be appropriate?
> >
> > kernel/audit.c | 5 +++++
> > 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
> > index 18cdfe2..1fa1e0d 100644
> > --- a/kernel/audit.c
> > +++ b/kernel/audit.c
> > @@ -872,6 +872,11 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff
> > *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
> > if (s.mask & AUDIT_STATUS_PID) {
> > int new_pid = s.pid;
> >
> > + if (audit_pid && new_pid &&
> > + !IS_ERR(netlink_getsockbyportid(audit_sock,
> > audit_nlk_portid)))
> > + pr_warn("auditd replaced by new auditd before
> > normal shutdown: "
> > + "(old)audit_pid=%d (by)pid=%d
> > new_pid=%d",
> > + audit_pid, pid, new_pid);
> > if ((!new_pid) && (task_tgid_vnr(current) != audit_pid))
> > return -EACCES;
> > if (audit_enabled != AUDIT_OFF)
- RGB
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Senior Software Engineer, Kernel Security, AMER ENG Base Operating Systems, Red
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