The attached patch addresses the problem with getting the audit daemon
shutdown credential information. It creates a new message type
AUDIT_TERM_INFO, which is used by the audit daemon to query who issued the
shutdown.
It requires the placement of a hook function that gathers the information. The
hook is after the DAC & MAC checks and before the function returns. Racing
threads could overwrite the uid & pid - but they would have to be root and
have policy that allows signalling the audit daemon. That should be a
manageable risk.
The userspace component will be released later in audit 0.7.2. When it
receives the TERM signal, it queries the kernel for shutdown information.
When it receives it, it writes the message and exits. The message looks
like this:
type=DAEMON msg=auditd(1114551182.000) auditd normal halt, sending pid=2650
uid=525, auditd pid=1685
Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 9c4f1af..6f344b4 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
/* If audit records are to be written to the netlink socket, audit_pid
* contains the (non-zero) pid. */
-static int audit_pid;
+int audit_pid;
/* If audit_limit is non-zero, limit the rate of sending audit records
* to that number per second. This prevents DoS attacks, but results in
@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@
static int audit_backlog_limit = 64;
static atomic_t audit_backlog = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
+/* The identity of the user shutting down the audit system. */
+uid_t audit_sig_uid = -1;
+pid_t audit_sig_pid = -1;
+
/* Records can be lost in several ways:
0) [suppressed in audit_alloc]
1) out of memory in audit_log_start [kmalloc of struct audit_buffer]
@@ -321,6 +325,7 @@
case AUDIT_SET:
case AUDIT_ADD:
case AUDIT_DEL:
+ case AUDIT_SIGNAL_INFO:
if (!cap_raised(eff_cap, CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL))
err = -EPERM;
break;
@@ -344,6 +349,7 @@
struct audit_buffer *ab;
u16 msg_type = nlh->nlmsg_type;
uid_t loginuid; /* loginuid of sender */
+ struct audit_sig_info sig_data;
err = audit_netlink_ok(NETLINK_CB(skb).eff_cap, msg_type);
if (err)
@@ -419,6 +425,12 @@
err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
#endif
break;
+ case AUDIT_SIGNAL_INFO:
+ sig_data.uid = audit_sig_uid;
+ sig_data.pid = audit_sig_pid;
+ audit_send_reply(NETLINK_CB(skb).pid, seq, AUDIT_SIGNAL_INFO,
+ 0, 0, &sig_data, sizeof(sig_data));
+ break;
default:
err = -EINVAL;
break;