audit: stop an old auditd being starved out by a new auditd

Nothing prevents a new auditd starting up and replacing a valid
audit_pid when an old auditd is still running, effectively starving out
the old auditd since audit_pid no longer points to the old valid
auditd.

If no message to auditd has been attempted since auditd died
unnaturally or got killed, audit_pid will still indicate it is alive.
There isn't an easy way to detect if an old auditd is still running on
the existing audit_pid other than attempting to send a message to see
if it fails.  An -ECONNREFUSED almost certainly means it disappeared
and can be replaced.  Other errors are not so straightforward and may
indicate transient problems that will resolve themselves and the old
auditd will recover.  Yet others will likely need manual intervention
for which a new auditd will not solve the problem.

Send a new message type (AUDIT_REPLACE) to the old auditd containing a
u32 with the PID of the new auditd.  If the audit replace message
succeeds (or doesn't fail with certainty), fail to register the new
auditd and return an error (-EEXIST).

This is expected to make the patch preventing an old auditd orphaning a
new auditd redundant.

V3: Switch audit message type from 1000 to 1300 block.

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/audit.h b/include/uapi/linux/audit.h
index 843540c398eb078d318a1a1c15d11b303a092110..d820aa979620b5f75b071dffbd73429bfc360282 100644 (file)
--- a/include/uapi/linux/audit.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/audit.h
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@
 #define AUDIT_SECCOMP          1326    /* Secure Computing event */
 #define AUDIT_PROCTITLE                1327    /* Proctitle emit event */
 #define AUDIT_FEATURE_CHANGE   1328    /* audit log listing feature changes */
+#define AUDIT_REPLACE          1329    /* Replace auditd if this packet unanswerd */
 
 #define AUDIT_AVC              1400    /* SE Linux avc denial or grant */
 #define AUDIT_SELINUX_ERR      1401    /* Internal SE Linux Errors */

diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index d6dd95cc59e6f1d4ad8435f97c88368602d87f33..2fd63d6879c53ef17a6036bb4782b45f72696754 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -809,6 +809,16 @@ static int audit_set_feature(struct sk_buff *skb)
        return 0;
 }
 
+static int audit_replace(pid_t pid)
+{
+       struct sk_buff *skb = audit_make_reply(0, 0, AUDIT_REPLACE, 0, 0,
+                                              &pid, sizeof(pid));
+
+       if (!skb)
+               return -ENOMEM;
+       return netlink_unicast(audit_sock, skb, audit_nlk_portid, 0);
+}
+
 static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 {
        u32                     seq;
@@ -870,9 +880,13 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
                }
                if (s.mask & AUDIT_STATUS_PID) {
                        int new_pid = s.pid;
+                       pid_t requesting_pid = task_tgid_vnr(current);
 
-                       if ((!new_pid) && (task_tgid_vnr(current) != audit_pid))
+                       if ((!new_pid) && (requesting_pid != audit_pid))
                                return -EACCES;
+                       if (audit_pid && new_pid &&
+                           audit_replace(requesting_pid) != -ECONNREFUSED)
+                               return -EEXIST;
                        if (audit_enabled != AUDIT_OFF)
                                audit_log_config_change("audit_pid", new_pid, audit_pid, 1);
                        audit_pid = new_pid;