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SubjectRe: Audit vs netlink interaction problem
* Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> 2008-03-14 20:05
> Hmmm... I'm afraid, that this can break the audit filtering and signal
> auditing. I haven't yet looked deep into it, but it compares the
> task->tgid with this audit_pid for different purposes. If audit_pid
> changes this code will be broken.

OK, then both pids have to be stored. audit_pid remains as-is but is
no longer used as destination netlink pid. A second pid is stored and
updated whenever a netlink message is received from userspace.

> Bu we have no the netlink socket at the moment of setting the pid to
> check this. The audit_reveive_msg() call which does this set is received
> via another (pre-created global) socket.

I don't understand this. As far as I can read the code, a plain kernel
side netlink socket is created in audit_init(). But it doesn't matter,
as soon as we receive the first message from userspace, we know the
netlink source pid.

> I though, that proper behavior would be to split audit_pid, used for
> filtering from the audit_nlk_pid used for netlink communications.

Yes, exactly.


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