`audit_del_rule()` destroys `e->rule.exe` via `audit_remove_mark_rule()`
before unlinking the rule from RCU-visible filter lists and waiting for a
grace period. Concurrent readers in `audit_filter()` and
`audit_filter_rules()` still dereference `e->rule.exe`, while the fsnotify
mark can be freed on an independent lifetime path. This creates a
use-after-free window during rule deletion.
Fix this by unlinking the rule from the RCU-visible lists and invoking
`synchronize_rcu()` before calling `audit_remove_mark_rule()` (and other
rule removal helpers). This ensures that all existing RCU readers have
exited the critical section before any underlying resources are destroyed.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 34d99af52a ("audit: implement audit by executable")
Reported-by: Vega <vega@nebusec.ai>
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.4
Signed-off-by: Luxiao Xu <rakukuip@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <enjou1224z@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
A deadlock occurs in the audit subsystem when duplicating
executable-related rules.
When a file is moved (e.g., via do_renameat2()), the VFS layer locks
the parent directory (I_MUTEX_PARENT), which synchronously triggers an
fsnotify_move event. If an existing executable audit rule matches the
file being moved, the audit subsystem catches this event and calls
audit_dupe_exe() to duplicate the watch and update the rule. Then,
audit_alloc_mark() would call kern_path_parent() to resolve the path,
leading to a blind attempt to acquire the exact same I_MUTEX_PARENT lock
already held by the task, resulting in the following recursive locking
deadlock:
============================================
WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
6.12.0-55.27.1.el10_0.x86_64+debug #1 Not tainted
--------------------------------------------
mv/5099 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff888132845358 (&inode->i_sb->s_type->i_mutex_dir_key/1){+.+.}-{3:3},
at: __kern_path_locked+0x10a/0x2f0
but task is already holding lock:
ffff888132846b58 (&inode->i_sb->s_type->i_mutex_dir_key/1){+.+.}-{3:3},
at: lock_two_directories+0x13f/0x2b0
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0
----
lock(&inode->i_sb->s_type->i_mutex_dir_key/1);
lock(&inode->i_sb->s_type->i_mutex_dir_key/1);
*** DEADLOCK ***
May be due to missing lock nesting notation
6 locks held by mv/5099:
#0: ffff888112a9c440 (sb_writers#13)
at: do_renameat2+0x34c/0xbc0
#1: ffff888112a9c790 (&type->s_vfs_rename_key#3)
at: do_renameat2+0x415/0xbc0
#2: ffff888132846b58 (&inode->i_sb->s_type->i_mutex_dir_key/1)
at: lock_two_directories+0x13f/0x2b0
#3: ffff888132845358 (&inode->i_sb->s_type->i_mutex_dir_key/5)
at: lock_two_directories+0x175/0x2b0
#4: ffffffffb3a1fb10 (&fsnotify_mark_srcu)
at: fsnotify+0x454/0x28a0
#5: ffffffffaf886230 (audit_filter_mutex)
at: audit_update_watch+0x36/0x11e0
stack backtrace:
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x6f/0xb0
print_deadlock_bug.cold+0xbd/0xca
validate_chain+0x83a/0xf00
__lock_acquire+0xcac/0x1d20
lock_acquire.part.0+0x11b/0x360
down_write_nested+0x9f/0x230
__kern_path_locked+0x10a/0x2f0
kern_path_locked+0x26/0x40
audit_alloc_mark+0xfb/0x4f0
audit_dupe_exe+0x6c/0xe0
audit_dupe_rule+0x6c2/0xc00
audit_update_watch+0x4cc/0x11e0
audit_watch_handle_event+0x12c/0x1b0
send_to_group+0x5d0/0x8b0
fsnotify+0x615/0x28a0
fsnotify_move+0x1d8/0x630
vfs_rename+0xdcd/0x1df0
do_renameat2+0x9d4/0xbc0
__x64_sys_renameat+0x192/0x260
do_syscall_64+0x92/0x180
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7f0491fe8c4e
Code: 0f 1f 40 00 48 8b 15 c1 e1 16 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 b8 ff ff ff ff
c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 49 89 ca b8 08 01 00 00 0f 05 <48>
3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 0a c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 15 89
RSP: 002b:00007ffc7210bf38 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000108
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f0491fe8c4e
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 00007ffc7210e6c8 RDI: 00000000ffffff9c
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 00005575eb2dae2a R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00005575eb2dae2a
R13: 00007ffc7210e6c8 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 00000000ffffff9c
</TASK>
The aforementioned deadlock can be consistently reproduced by running
the script below:
audit-dupe-exe-deadlock.sh
--------------------------
#!/bin/bash
auditctl -D
mkdir -p /tmp/foo
touch /tmp/file
auditctl -a always,exit -F exe=/tmp/file -F path=/tmp/file -S all -k dr
mv /tmp/file /tmp/foo/file
rm -Rf /tmp/foo
This patch fixes the issue by introducing struct audit_watch_ctx to pass
the fsnotify event context down to audit_alloc_mark(). By utilizing the
already-resolved directory inode provided by the event, we bypass the
kern_path_parent() path resolution entirely, safely avoiding the
recursive lock. Furthermore, it explicitly allows duplicate fsnotify
marks (allow_dups = 1) during the rename update, allowing the new rule's
mark to safely coexist with the old rule's mark until the old rule is
freed.
P.S.: This issue was identified and reproduced during a comprehensive
code coverage analysis of the audit subsystem. The full report is
available at the link below:
https://people.redhat.com/rrobaina/audit-code-coverage-analysis.pdf
P.P.S: With the permission of both Ricardo and Nathan, I've squashed a
fixup patch from Nathan that addresses a compile time error when
CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 34d99af52a ("audit: implement audit by executable")
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com>
[PM: move link metadata into the msg, apply fix from NC]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
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>
Fix various coding style issues across the audit subsystem flagged
by checkpatch.pl script to adhere to kernel coding standards.
Specific changes include:
- kernel/auditfilter.c: Move the open brace '{' to the previous line
for the audit_ops array declaration.
- lib/audit.c: Add a required space before the open parenthesis '('.
- include/uapi/linux/audit.h: Enclose the complex macro value for
AUDIT_UID_UNSET in parentheses.
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>
Replace kmalloc+memset by kzalloc for better readability and simplicity.
This addresses the warning below:
WARNING: kzalloc should be used for data, instead of kmalloc/memset
Signed-off-by: Gongwei Li <ligongwei@kylinos.cn>
[PM: subject and description tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:
- Proper audit support for multiple LSMs
As the audit subsystem predated the work to enable multiple LSMs,
some additional work was needed to support logging the different LSM
labels for the subjects/tasks and objects on the system. Casey's
patches add new auxillary records for subjects and objects that
convey the additional labels.
- Ensure fanotify audit events are always generated
Generally speaking security relevant subsystems always generate audit
events, unless explicitly ignored. However, up to this point fanotify
events had been ignored by default, but starting with this pull
request fanotify follows convention and generates audit events by
default.
- Replace an instance of strcpy() with strscpy()
- Minor indentation, style, and comment fixes
* tag 'audit-pr-20250926' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit:
audit: fix skb leak when audit rate limit is exceeded
audit: init ab->skb_list earlier in audit_buffer_alloc()
audit: add record for multiple object contexts
audit: add record for multiple task security contexts
lsm: security_lsmblob_to_secctx module selection
audit: create audit_stamp structure
audit: add a missing tab
audit: record fanotify event regardless of presence of rules
audit: fix typo in auditfilter.c comment
audit: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy()
audit: fix indentation in audit_log_exit()
When a watch on dir=/ is combined with an fsnotify event for a
single-character name directly under / (e.g., creating /a), an
out-of-bounds read can occur in audit_compare_dname_path().
The helper parent_len() returns 1 for "/". In audit_compare_dname_path(),
when parentlen equals the full path length (1), the code sets p = path + 1
and pathlen = 1 - 1 = 0. The subsequent loop then dereferences
p[pathlen - 1] (i.e., p[-1]), causing an out-of-bounds read.
Fix this by adding a pathlen > 0 check to the while loop condition
to prevent the out-of-bounds access.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: e92eebb0d6 ("audit: fix suffixed '/' filename matching")
Reported-by: Stanislav Fort <disclosure@aisle.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fort <stanislav.fort@aisle.com>
[PM: subject tweak, sign-off email fixes]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Correct the misspelling of "searching" (was "serarching")
in the function documentation for audit_update_lsm_rules.
Found via code inspection, no functional impact.
Signed-off-by: Kieran Moy <kfatyuip@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
When the user specifies a directory to delete with the suffix '/',
the audit record fails to collect the filename, resulting in the
following logs:
type=PATH msg=audit(10/30/2024 14:11:17.796:6304) : item=2 name=(null)
type=PATH msg=audit(10/30/2024 14:11:17.796:6304) : item=1 name=(null)
It happens because the value of the variables dname, and n->name->name
in __audit_inode_child() differ only by the suffix '/'. This commit
treats this corner case by handling pathname's trailing slashes in
audit_compare_dname_path().
Steps to reproduce the issue:
# auditctl -w /tmp
$ mkdir /tmp/foo
$ rm -r /tmp/foo/
# ausearch -i | grep PATH | tail -3
The first version of this patch was based on a GitHub patch/PR by
user @hqh2010 [1].
Link: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/pull/148 [1]
Suggested-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
[PM: subject tweak, trim old metadata]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Change the LSM data stored in the audit transactions from a secid
to an LSM prop. This is done in struct audit_context and struct
audit_aux_data_pids. Several cases of scaffolding can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
[PM: subj line tweak]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Change the secid parameter of security_audit_rule_match
to a lsm_prop structure pointer. Pass the entry from the
lsm_prop structure for the approprite slot to the LSM hook.
Change the users of security_audit_rule_match to use the
lsm_prop instead of a u32. The scaffolding function lsmprop_init()
fills the structure with the value of the old secid, ensuring that
it is available to the appropriate module hook. The sources of
the secid, security_task_getsecid() and security_inode_getsecid(),
will be converted to use the lsm_prop structure later in the series.
At that point the use of lsmprop_init() is dropped.
Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
[PM: subject line tweak]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
In a few audit records, PIDs were being recorded with task_pid_nr()
instead of task_tgid_nr().
$ grep "task_pid_nr" kernel/audit*.c
audit.c: task_pid_nr(current),
auditfilter.c: pid = task_pid_nr(current);
auditsc.c: audit_log_format(ab, " pid=%u", task_pid_nr(current));
For single-thread applications, the process id (pid) and the thread
group id (tgid) are the same. However, on multi-thread applications,
task_pid_nr() returns the current thread id (user-space's TID), while
task_tgid_nr() returns the main thread id (user-space's PID). Since
the users are more interested in the process id (pid), rather than the
thread id (tid), this patch converts these callers to the correct method.
Link: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/126
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
The ret variable is assigned when it does not need to be defined, as it
has already been assigned before use.
Signed-off-by: Li zeming <zeming@nfschina.com>
[PM: rewrite subject line]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Fixes following checkpatch.pl issue:
ERROR: trailing statements should be on next line
Signed-off-by: Atul Kumar Pant <atulpant.linux@gmail.com>
[PM: subject line tweak]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Fixes following checkpatch.pl issue:
ERROR: space required before the open parenthesis '('
ERROR: spaces required around that '='
ERROR: spaces required around that '<'
ERROR: spaces required around that '=='
Signed-off-by: Atul Kumar Pant <atulpant.linux@gmail.com>
[PM: subject line tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:
"Four audit patches for v5.17:
- Harden the code through additional use of the struct_size() macro
and zero-length arrays to flexible-array conversions.
- Ensure that processes which generate userspace audit records are
not exempt from the kernel's audit throttling when the audit queues
are being overrun"
* tag 'audit-pr-20220110' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit:
audit: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
audit: use struct_size() helper in audit_[send|make]_reply()
audit: ensure userspace is penalized the same as the kernel when under pressure
audit: use struct_size() helper in kmalloc()
The security_task_getsecid_subj() LSM hook invites misuse by allowing
callers to specify a task even though the hook is only safe when the
current task is referenced. Fix this by removing the task_struct
argument to the hook, requiring LSM implementations to use the
current task. While we are changing the hook declaration we also
rename the function to security_current_getsecid_subj() in an effort
to reinforce that the hook captures the subjective credentials of the
current task and not an arbitrary task on the system.
Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
This patch adds basic audit io_uring filtering, using as much of the
existing audit filtering infrastructure as possible. In order to do
this we reuse the audit filter rule's syscall mask for the io_uring
operation and we create a new filter for io_uring operations as
AUDIT_FILTER_URING_EXIT/audit_filter_list[7].
Thanks to Richard Guy Briggs for his review, feedback, and work on
the corresponding audit userspace changes.
Acked-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Luxiao XuandPaul Moore
Ricardo RobainaandPaul Moore
Linus Torvalds
Kees Cook
Gongwei LiandPaul Moore
Stanislav FortandPaul Moore
Kieran MoyandPaul Moore
Casey SchauflerandPaul Moore
GUO ZihuaandPaul Moore
Li zemingandPaul Moore
Atul Kumar PantandPaul Moore
Xiu JianfengandPaul Moore