[AUDIT] create context if auditing was ever enabled
Disabling audit at runtime by auditctl doesn't mean that we can
stop allocating contexts for new processes; we don't want to miss them
when that sucker is reenabled.
(based on work from Al Viro in the RHEL kernel series)
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 549b2f5..1242021 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@
#define AUDIT_ON 1
#define AUDIT_LOCKED 2
int audit_enabled;
+int audit_ever_enabled;
/* Default state when kernel boots without any parameters. */
static int audit_default;
@@ -310,11 +311,17 @@
static int audit_set_enabled(int state, uid_t loginuid, u32 sid)
{
+ int rc;
if (state < AUDIT_OFF || state > AUDIT_LOCKED)
return -EINVAL;
- return audit_do_config_change("audit_enabled", &audit_enabled, state,
- loginuid, sid);
+ rc = audit_do_config_change("audit_enabled", &audit_enabled, state,
+ loginuid, sid);
+
+ if (!rc)
+ audit_ever_enabled |= !!state;
+
+ return rc;
}
static int audit_set_failure(int state, uid_t loginuid, u32 sid)
@@ -857,6 +864,7 @@
skb_queue_head_init(&audit_skb_queue);
audit_initialized = 1;
audit_enabled = audit_default;
+ audit_ever_enabled |= !!audit_default;
/* Register the callback with selinux. This callback will be invoked
* when a new policy is loaded. */
@@ -884,8 +892,10 @@
printk(KERN_INFO "audit: %s%s\n",
audit_default ? "enabled" : "disabled",
audit_initialized ? "" : " (after initialization)");
- if (audit_initialized)
+ if (audit_initialized) {
audit_enabled = audit_default;
+ audit_ever_enabled |= !!audit_default;
+ }
return 1;
}