audit_log_n_string() computes new_len as "slen + 3" (enclosing quotes
plus the NUL terminator) and stores it into an int, while slen is a
size_t. For a sufficiently large slen the addition can overflow and/or
the result be truncated when assigned to the int new_len, so the
"new_len > avail" check can be bypassed and the subsequent
memcpy(ptr, string, slen) can write past the skb tail.
This is the same class of bug that was fixed for the hex sibling in
commit 65dfde57d1 ("audit: fix potential integer overflow in
audit_log_n_hex()"); both helpers are reached through
audit_log_n_untrustedstring() with the same length source.
Make new_len a size_t and use check_add_overflow() to catch the
overflow, mirroring the audit_log_n_hex() fix. No functional change for
the in-tree callers, which all pass bounded lengths.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 168b717395 ("AUDIT: Clean up logging of untrusted strings")
Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
The function calculates new_len as len << 1 for hex encoding. This
has two overflow risks: the shift itself can overflow when len is
large, and the result can be truncated when assigned to new_len
(declared as int) from the size_t calculation.
Fix by using check_shl_overflow() to catch shift overflow and
changing new_len and loop counter i to size_t to prevent truncation.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 168b717395 ("AUDIT: Clean up logging of untrusted strings")
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com>
[PM: remove vertical whitspace noise]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Multiple readers access audit_queue.qlen via skb_queue_len() without
holding the queue lock or using READ_ONCE(), while kauditd writes to
this field via the skb_dequeue() → __skb_unlink() path with WRITE_ONCE()
protected by a spinlock. This constitutes data races.
All affected skb_queue_len(&audit_queue) call sites:
- kauditd_thread() wait_event_freezable() condition
- audit_receive_msg() AUDIT_GET handler (s.backlog assignment)
- audit_receive() backlog check
- audit_log_start() backlog check and pr_warn()
KCSAN reports the following conflicting access pattern (one example):
==================================================================
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / skb_dequeue
write (marked) to 0xffffffff8512ee20 of 4 bytes by task 661 on cpu 57:
skb_dequeue+0x70/0xf0
kauditd_send_queue+0x71/0x220
kauditd_thread+0x1cb/0x430
kthread+0x1c2/0x210
ret_from_fork+0x162/0x1a0
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
read to 0xffffffff8512ee20 of 4 bytes by task 36586 on cpu 1:
audit_log_start+0x2a0/0x6b0
audit_core_dumps+0x64/0xa0
do_coredump+0x14b/0x1260
get_signal+0xeb2/0xf70
arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x41/0x170
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xa2/0x1c0
do_syscall_64+0x1a3/0x1c0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0xe0
value changed: 0x00000001 -> 0x00000000
==================================================================
Resolve the race by switching to lockless helper skb_queue_len_lockless(),
which internally uses READ_ONCE() and properly pairs with the WRITE_ONCE()
write accesses already present on the writer side.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3197542482 ("audit: rework audit_log_start()")
Signed-off-by: Chi Wang <wangchi@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com>
[PM: line length tweak]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:
- Fix a recursive deadlock when duplicating executable file rules
Avoid multiple lookups and attempted I_MUTEX_PARENT locks when moving
watched files by passing the already resolved inodes through the
audit code.
- Fix removal of executable watch rules after the file is deleted
Prior to this fix we were unable to remove an executable file watch
where the file had been previously deleted due to a negative dentry
check in the code that performs the lookup on the file watches.
- Convert our basic "unsigned" type usage to "unsigned int".
* tag 'audit-pr-20260615' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit:
audit: fix recursive locking deadlock in audit_dupe_exe()
audit: fix removal of dangling executable rules
audit: use 'unsigned int' instead of 'unsigned'
Address checkpatch.pl warning below, across the audit subsystem:
WARNING: Prefer 'unsigned int' to bare use of 'unsigned'
Minor cleanup, no functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
AUDIT_ADD_RULE and AUDIT_DEL_RULE correctly check for AUDIT_LOCKED
and return -EPERM, but AUDIT_TRIM and AUDIT_MAKE_EQUIV do not. This
allows a process with CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL to modify directory tree
watches and equivalence mappings even when the audit configuration
has been locked, undermining the purpose of the lock.
Add AUDIT_LOCKED checks to both commands.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Sergio Correia <scorreia@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Currently, audit_receive_msg() ignores unknown status bits in AUDIT_SET
requests, incorrectly returning success to newer user space tools
querying unsupported features. This breaks forward compatibility.
Fix this by defining AUDIT_STATUS_ALL and returning -EINVAL if any
unrecognized bits are set (s.mask & ~AUDIT_STATUS_ALL).
This ensures invalid requests are safely rejected, allowing user space
to reliably test for and gracefully handle feature detection on older
kernels.
Suggested-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com>
[PM: subject line tweak]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Static variables are automatically initialized to 0 by the compiler.
Remove the redundant explicit assignments in kernel/audit.c to clean
up the code, align with standard kernel coding style, and fix the
following checkpatch.pl errors:
./scripts/checkpatch.pl kernel/audit.c | grep -A2 ERROR:
ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0
+ static unsigned long last_check = 0;
--
ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0
+ static int messages = 0;
--
ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0
+ static unsigned long last_msg = 0;
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.
As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using
git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'
to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.
Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.
For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:
Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)
Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)
Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)
(where TYPE may also be *VAR)
The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
space (Heming Zhao)
- "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)
- "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
page size (Pnina Feder)
- "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)
- "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)
- "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)
- "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)
- "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)
- "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
more appropriate places (Yury Norov)
- "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)
- "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
list: add kunit test for private list primitives
list: add primitives for private list manipulations
delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader
drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader
drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader
android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader
kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
...
Remove <linux/hex.h> from <linux/kernel.h> and update all users/callers of
hex.h interfaces to directly #include <linux/hex.h> as part of the process
of putting kernel.h on a diet.
Removing hex.h from kernel.h means that 36K C source files don't have to
pay the price of parsing hex.h for the roughly 120 C source files that
need it.
This change has been build-tested with allmodconfig on most ARCHes. Also,
all users/callers of <linux/hex.h> in the entire source tree have been
updated if needed (if not already #included).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251215005206.2362276-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
NETFILTER_PKT records show both source and destination
addresses, in addition to the associated networking protocol.
However, it lacks the ports information, which is often
valuable for troubleshooting.
This patch adds both source and destination port numbers,
'sport' and 'dport' respectively, to TCP, UDP, UDP-Lite and
SCTP-related NETFILTER_PKT records.
$ TESTS="netfilter_pkt" make -e test &> /dev/null
$ ausearch -i -ts recent |grep NETFILTER_PKT
type=NETFILTER_PKT ... proto=icmp
type=NETFILTER_PKT ... proto=ipv6-icmp
type=NETFILTER_PKT ... proto=udp sport=46333 dport=42424
type=NETFILTER_PKT ... proto=udp sport=35953 dport=42424
type=NETFILTER_PKT ... proto=tcp sport=50314 dport=42424
type=NETFILTER_PKT ... proto=tcp sport=57346 dport=42424
Link: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/162
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Netfilter code (net/netfilter/nft_log.c and net/netfilter/xt_AUDIT.c)
have to be kept in sync. Both source files had duplicated versions of
audit_ip4() and audit_ip6() functions, which can result in lack of
consistency and/or duplicated work.
This patch adds a helper function in audit.c that can be called by
netfilter code commonly, aiming to improve maintainability and
consistency.
Suggested-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Suggested-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
When configuring a small audit rate limit in
/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules:
-a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S openat -S truncate -S ftruncate
-F exit=-EACCES -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k access -r 100
And then repeatedly triggering permission denied as a normal user:
while :; do cat /proc/1/environ; done
We can see the messages in kernel log:
[ 2531.862184] audit: rate limit exceeded
The unreclaimable slab objects start to leak quickly. With kmemleak
enabled, many call traces appear like:
unreferenced object 0xffff99144b13f600 (size 232):
comm "cat", pid 1100, jiffies 4294739144
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc 8540ec4f):
kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0x90
kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x2ea/0x390
__alloc_skb+0x174/0x1b0
audit_log_start+0x198/0x3d0
audit_log_proctitle+0x32/0x160
audit_log_exit+0x6c6/0x780
__audit_syscall_exit+0xee/0x140
syscall_exit_work+0x12b/0x150
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x39/0x80
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x11/0x260
do_syscall_64+0x8c/0x180
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0x80
This shows that the skb allocated in audit_log_start() and queued
onto skb_list is never freed.
In audit_log_end(), each skb is dequeued from skb_list and passed
to __audit_log_end(). However, when the audit rate limit is exceeded,
__audit_log_end() simply prints "rate limit exceeded" and returns
without processing the skb. Since the skb is already removed from
skb_list, audit_buffer_free() cannot free it later, leading to a
memory leak.
Fix this by freeing the skb when the rate limit is exceeded.
Fixes: eb59d494ee ("audit: add record for multiple task security contexts")
Signed-off-by: Gerald Yang <gerald.yang@canonical.com>
[PM: fixes tag, subj tweak]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Create a new audit record AUDIT_MAC_OBJ_CONTEXTS.
An example of the MAC_OBJ_CONTEXTS record is:
type=MAC_OBJ_CONTEXTS
msg=audit(1601152467.009:1050):
obj_selinux=unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0
When an audit event includes a AUDIT_MAC_OBJ_CONTEXTS record
the "obj=" field in other records in the event will be "obj=?".
An AUDIT_MAC_OBJ_CONTEXTS record is supplied when the system has
multiple security modules that may make access decisions based
on an object security context.
Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
[PM: subj tweak, audit example readability indents]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Replace the single skb pointer in an audit_buffer with a list of
skb pointers. Add the audit_stamp information to the audit_buffer as
there's no guarantee that there will be an audit_context containing
the stamp associated with the event. At audit_log_end() time create
auxiliary records as have been added to the list. Functions are
created to manage the skb list in the audit_buffer.
Create a new audit record AUDIT_MAC_TASK_CONTEXTS.
An example of the MAC_TASK_CONTEXTS record is:
type=MAC_TASK_CONTEXTS
msg=audit(1600880931.832:113)
subj_apparmor=unconfined
subj_smack=_
When an audit event includes a AUDIT_MAC_TASK_CONTEXTS record the
"subj=" field in other records in the event will be "subj=?".
An AUDIT_MAC_TASK_CONTEXTS record is supplied when the system has
multiple security modules that may make access decisions based on a
subject security context.
Refactor audit_log_task_context(), creating a new audit_log_subj_ctx().
This is used in netlabel auditing to provide multiple subject security
contexts as necessary.
Suggested-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
[PM: subj tweak, audit example readability indents]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Add a parameter lsmid to security_lsmblob_to_secctx() to identify which
of the security modules that may be active should provide the security
context. If the value of lsmid is LSM_ID_UNDEF the first LSM providing
a hook is used. security_secid_to_secctx() is unchanged, and will
always report the first LSM providing a hook.
Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
[PM: subj tweak]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Replace the timestamp and serial number pair used in audit records
with a structure containing the two elements.
Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
[PM: subj tweak]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
When no audit rules are in place, AUDIT_ANOM_{LINK,CREAT} events
reported in audit_log_path_denied() are unconditionally dropped due to
an explicit check for the existence of any audit rules. Given this is a
report of a security violation, allow it to be recorded regardless of
the existence of any audit rules.
To test,
mkdir -p /root/tmp
chmod 1777 /root/tmp
touch /root/tmp/test.txt
useradd test
chown test /root/tmp/test.txt
{echo C0644 12 test.txt; printf 'hello\ntest1\n'; printf \\000;} | \
scp -t /root/tmp
Check with
ausearch -m ANOM_CREAT -ts recent
Link: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-9065
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
audit_log_vformat() is using printf() type of format, and GCC compiler
(Debian 14.2.0-17) is not happy about this:
kernel/audit.c:1978:9: error: function ‘audit_log_vformat’
might be a candidate for ‘gnu_printf’ format attribute
kernel/audit.c:1987:17: error: function ‘audit_log_vformat’
might be a candidate for ‘gnu_printf’ format attribute
Fix the compilation errors (`make W=1` when CONFIG_WERROR=y, which is
default) by adding __printf() attribute.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
[PM: commit description line wrap fixes]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
When audit is enabled in a kernel build, and there are no LSMs active
that support LSM labeling, it is possible that local variable lsmctx
in the AUDIT_SIGNAL_INFO handler in audit_receive_msg() could be used
before it is properly initialize. Then kmalloc() will try to allocate
a large amount of memory with the uninitialized length.
This patch corrects this problem by initializing the lsmctx to a safe
value when it is declared, which avoid errors like:
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 443 at mm/page_alloc.c:4727 __alloc_pages_noprof
...
ra: 9000000003059644 ___kmalloc_large_node+0x84/0x1e0
ERA: 900000000304d588 __alloc_pages_noprof+0x4c8/0x1040
CRMD: 000000b0 (PLV0 -IE -DA +PG DACF=CC DACM=CC -WE)
PRMD: 00000004 (PPLV0 +PIE -PWE)
EUEN: 00000007 (+FPE +SXE +ASXE -BTE)
ECFG: 00071c1d (LIE=0,2-4,10-12 VS=7)
ESTAT: 000c0000 [BRK] (IS= ECode=12 EsubCode=0)
PRID: 0014c010 (Loongson-64bit, Loongson-3A5000)
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 443 Comm: auditd Not tainted 6.13.0-rc1+ #1899
...
Call Trace:
[<9000000002def6a8>] show_stack+0x30/0x148
[<9000000002debf58>] dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0xa0
[<9000000002e0fe18>] __warn+0x80/0x108
[<900000000407486c>] report_bug+0x154/0x268
[<90000000040ad468>] do_bp+0x2a8/0x320
[<9000000002dedda0>] handle_bp+0x120/0x1c0
[<900000000304d588>] __alloc_pages_noprof+0x4c8/0x1040
[<9000000003059640>] ___kmalloc_large_node+0x80/0x1e0
[<9000000003061504>] __kmalloc_noprof+0x2c4/0x380
[<9000000002f0f7ac>] audit_receive_msg+0x764/0x1530
[<9000000002f1065c>] audit_receive+0xe4/0x1c0
[<9000000003e5abe8>] netlink_unicast+0x340/0x450
[<9000000003e5ae9c>] netlink_sendmsg+0x1a4/0x4a0
[<9000000003d9ffd0>] __sock_sendmsg+0x48/0x58
[<9000000003da32f0>] __sys_sendto+0x100/0x170
[<9000000003da3374>] sys_sendto+0x14/0x28
[<90000000040ad574>] do_syscall+0x94/0x138
[<9000000002ded318>] handle_syscall+0xb8/0x158
Fixes: 6fba89813c ("lsm: ensure the correct LSM context releaser")
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
[PM: resolved excessive line length in the backtrace]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Replace the (secctx,seclen) pointer pair with a single
lsm_context pointer to allow return of the LSM identifier
along with the context and context length. This allows
security_release_secctx() to know how to release the
context. Callers have been modified to use or save the
returned data from the new structure.
security_secid_to_secctx() and security_lsmproc_to_secctx()
will now return the length value on success instead of 0.
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: audit@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
[PM: subject tweak, kdoc fix, signedness fix from Dan Carpenter]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Zhan XushengandPaul Moore
Ricardo RobainaandPaul Moore
Chi WangandPaul Moore
Linus Torvalds
Sergio CorreiaandPaul Moore
Kees Cook
Randy DunlapandAndrew Morton
Gerald YangandPaul Moore
Eric DumazetandPaul Moore
Casey SchauflerandPaul Moore
Richard Guy BriggsandPaul Moore
Andy ShevchenkoandPaul Moore
Huacai ChenandPaul Moore