commit 41126226e186d92a45ed664e546abb5204588359
author Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com> Fri Apr 18 13:30:14 2008 -0700
committer Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Mon Apr 28 06:28:24 2008 -0400
tree cd31de9587e81b01934fe95e574be109dd0129c7
parent 7719e437fac119e57b17588bab3a8e39ff9d22eb

[patch 1/2] audit: let userspace fully control TTY input auditing

Remove the code that automatically disables TTY input auditing in processes
that open TTYs when they have no other TTY open; this heuristic was
intended to automatically handle daemons, but it has false positives (e.g.
with sshd) that make it impossible to control TTY input auditing from a PAM
module.  With this patch, TTY input auditing is controlled from user-space
only.

On the other hand, not even for daemons does it make sense to audit "input"
from PTY masters; this data was produced by a program writing to the PTY
slave, and does not represent data entered by the user.

Signed-off-by: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

drivers/char/tty_audit.c

diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_audit.c b/drivers/char/tty_audit.c
index caeedd1..6342b05 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_audit.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_audit.c
@@ -233,6 +233,10 @@
 	if (unlikely(size == 0))
 		return;
 
+	if (tty->driver->type == TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_PTY
+	    && tty->driver->subtype == PTY_TYPE_MASTER)
+		return;
+
 	buf = tty_audit_buf_get(tty);
 	if (!buf)
 		return;
@@ -295,53 +299,3 @@
 		tty_audit_buf_put(buf);
 	}
 }
-
-/**
- *	tty_audit_opening	-	A TTY is being opened.
- *
- *	As a special hack, tasks that close all their TTYs and open new ones
- *	are assumed to be system daemons (e.g. getty) and auditing is
- *	automatically disabled for them.
- */
-void tty_audit_opening(void)
-{
-	int disable;
-
-	disable = 1;
-	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-	if (current->signal->audit_tty == 0)
-		disable = 0;
-	spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-	if (!disable)
-		return;
-
-	task_lock(current);
-	if (current->files) {
-		struct fdtable *fdt;
-		unsigned i;
-
-		/*
-		 * We don't take a ref to the file, so we must hold ->file_lock
-		 * instead.
-		 */
-		spin_lock(&current->files->file_lock);
-		fdt = files_fdtable(current->files);
-		for (i = 0; i < fdt->max_fds; i++) {
-			struct file *filp;
-
-			filp = fcheck_files(current->files, i);
-			if (filp && is_tty(filp)) {
-				disable = 0;
-				break;
-			}
-		}
-		spin_unlock(&current->files->file_lock);
-	}
-	task_unlock(current);
-	if (!disable)
-		return;
-
-	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-	current->signal->audit_tty = 0;
-	spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
-}