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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'stable-4.13' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit</title>
<updated>2017-07-05T18:24:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-05T18:24:05+00:00</published>
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Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:
 "Things are relatively quiet on the audit front for v4.13, just five
  patches for a total diffstat of 102 lines.

  There are two patches from Richard to consistently record the POSIX
  capabilities and add the ambient capability information as well.

  I also chipped in two patches to fix a race condition with the auditd
  tracking code and ensure we don't skip sending any records to the
  audit multicast group.

  Finally a single style fix that I accepted because I must have been in
  a good mood that day.

  Everything passes our test suite, and should be relatively harmless,
  please merge for v4.13"

* 'stable-4.13' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit:
  audit: make sure we never skip the multicast broadcast
  audit: fix a race condition with the auditd tracking code
  audit: style fix
  audit: add ambient capabilities to CAPSET and BPRM_FCAPS records
  audit: unswing cap_* fields in PATH records
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Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:
 "Things are relatively quiet on the audit front for v4.13, just five
  patches for a total diffstat of 102 lines.

  There are two patches from Richard to consistently record the POSIX
  capabilities and add the ambient capability information as well.

  I also chipped in two patches to fix a race condition with the auditd
  tracking code and ensure we don't skip sending any records to the
  audit multicast group.

  Finally a single style fix that I accepted because I must have been in
  a good mood that day.

  Everything passes our test suite, and should be relatively harmless,
  please merge for v4.13"

* 'stable-4.13' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit:
  audit: make sure we never skip the multicast broadcast
  audit: fix a race condition with the auditd tracking code
  audit: style fix
  audit: add ambient capabilities to CAPSET and BPRM_FCAPS records
  audit: unswing cap_* fields in PATH records
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<entry>
<title>audit: add ambient capabilities to CAPSET and BPRM_FCAPS records</title>
<updated>2017-05-30T21:36:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Guy Briggs</name>
<email>rgb@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-07T14:17:27+00:00</published>
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Capabilities were augmented to include ambient capabilities in v4.3
commit 58319057b784 ("capabilities: ambient capabilities").

Add ambient capabilities to the audit BPRM_FCAPS and CAPSET records.

The record contains fields "old_pp", "old_pi", "old_pe", "new_pp",
"new_pi", "new_pe" so in keeping with the previous record
normalizations, change the "new_*" variants to simply drop the "new_"
prefix.

A sample of the replaced BPRM_FCAPS record:
RAW: type=BPRM_FCAPS msg=audit(1491468034.252:237): fver=2
fp=0000000000200000 fi=0000000000000000 fe=1 old_pp=0000000000000000
old_pi=0000000000000000 old_pe=0000000000000000 old_pa=0000000000000000
pp=0000000000200000 pi=0000000000000000 pe=0000000000200000
pa=0000000000000000

INTERPRET: type=BPRM_FCAPS msg=audit(04/06/2017 04:40:34.252:237):
fver=2 fp=sys_admin fi=none fe=chown old_pp=none old_pi=none
old_pe=none old_pa=none pp=sys_admin pi=none pe=sys_admin pa=none

A sample of the replaced CAPSET record:
RAW: type=CAPSET msg=audit(1491469502.371:242): pid=833
cap_pi=0000003fffffffff cap_pp=0000003fffffffff cap_pe=0000003fffffffff
cap_pa=0000000000000000

INTERPRET: type=CAPSET msg=audit(04/06/2017 05:05:02.371:242) : pid=833
cap_pi=chown,dac_override,dac_read_search,fowner,fsetid,kill,
setgid,setuid,setpcap,linux_immutable,net_bind_service,net_broadcast,
net_admin,net_raw,ipc_lock,ipc_owner,sys_module,sys_rawio,sys_chroot,
sys_ptrace,sys_pacct,sys_admin,sys_boot,sys_nice,sys_resource,sys_time,
sys_tty_config,mknod,lease,audit_write,audit_control,setfcap,
mac_override,mac_admin,syslog,wake_alarm,block_suspend,audit_read
cap_pp=chown,dac_override,dac_read_search,fowner,fsetid,kill,setgid,
setuid,setpcap,linux_immutable,net_bind_service,net_broadcast,
net_admin,net_raw,ipc_lock,ipc_owner,sys_module,sys_rawio,sys_chroot,
sys_ptrace,sys_pacct,sys_admin,sys_boot,sys_nice,sys_resource,
sys_time,sys_tty_config,mknod,lease,audit_write,audit_control,setfcap,
mac_override,mac_admin,syslog,wake_alarm,block_suspend,audit_read
cap_pe=chown,dac_override,dac_read_search,fowner,fsetid,kill,setgid,
setuid,setpcap,linux_immutable,net_bind_service,net_broadcast,
net_admin,net_raw,ipc_lock,ipc_owner,sys_module,sys_rawio,sys_chroot,
sys_ptrace,sys_pacct,sys_admin,sys_boot,sys_nice,sys_resource,
sys_time,sys_tty_config,mknod,lease,audit_write,audit_control,setfcap,
mac_override,mac_admin,syslog,wake_alarm,block_suspend,audit_read
cap_pa=none

See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/40

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs &lt;rgb@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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Capabilities were augmented to include ambient capabilities in v4.3
commit 58319057b784 ("capabilities: ambient capabilities").

Add ambient capabilities to the audit BPRM_FCAPS and CAPSET records.

The record contains fields "old_pp", "old_pi", "old_pe", "new_pp",
"new_pi", "new_pe" so in keeping with the previous record
normalizations, change the "new_*" variants to simply drop the "new_"
prefix.

A sample of the replaced BPRM_FCAPS record:
RAW: type=BPRM_FCAPS msg=audit(1491468034.252:237): fver=2
fp=0000000000200000 fi=0000000000000000 fe=1 old_pp=0000000000000000
old_pi=0000000000000000 old_pe=0000000000000000 old_pa=0000000000000000
pp=0000000000200000 pi=0000000000000000 pe=0000000000200000
pa=0000000000000000

INTERPRET: type=BPRM_FCAPS msg=audit(04/06/2017 04:40:34.252:237):
fver=2 fp=sys_admin fi=none fe=chown old_pp=none old_pi=none
old_pe=none old_pa=none pp=sys_admin pi=none pe=sys_admin pa=none

A sample of the replaced CAPSET record:
RAW: type=CAPSET msg=audit(1491469502.371:242): pid=833
cap_pi=0000003fffffffff cap_pp=0000003fffffffff cap_pe=0000003fffffffff
cap_pa=0000000000000000

INTERPRET: type=CAPSET msg=audit(04/06/2017 05:05:02.371:242) : pid=833
cap_pi=chown,dac_override,dac_read_search,fowner,fsetid,kill,
setgid,setuid,setpcap,linux_immutable,net_bind_service,net_broadcast,
net_admin,net_raw,ipc_lock,ipc_owner,sys_module,sys_rawio,sys_chroot,
sys_ptrace,sys_pacct,sys_admin,sys_boot,sys_nice,sys_resource,sys_time,
sys_tty_config,mknod,lease,audit_write,audit_control,setfcap,
mac_override,mac_admin,syslog,wake_alarm,block_suspend,audit_read
cap_pp=chown,dac_override,dac_read_search,fowner,fsetid,kill,setgid,
setuid,setpcap,linux_immutable,net_bind_service,net_broadcast,
net_admin,net_raw,ipc_lock,ipc_owner,sys_module,sys_rawio,sys_chroot,
sys_ptrace,sys_pacct,sys_admin,sys_boot,sys_nice,sys_resource,
sys_time,sys_tty_config,mknod,lease,audit_write,audit_control,setfcap,
mac_override,mac_admin,syslog,wake_alarm,block_suspend,audit_read
cap_pe=chown,dac_override,dac_read_search,fowner,fsetid,kill,setgid,
setuid,setpcap,linux_immutable,net_bind_service,net_broadcast,
net_admin,net_raw,ipc_lock,ipc_owner,sys_module,sys_rawio,sys_chroot,
sys_ptrace,sys_pacct,sys_admin,sys_boot,sys_nice,sys_resource,
sys_time,sys_tty_config,mknod,lease,audit_write,audit_control,setfcap,
mac_override,mac_admin,syslog,wake_alarm,block_suspend,audit_read
cap_pa=none

See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/40

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs &lt;rgb@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'fsnotify' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2017-05-03T18:05:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T18:05:15+00:00</published>
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Pull fsnotify updates from Jan Kara:
 "The branch contains mainly a rework of fsnotify infrastructure fixing
  a shortcoming that we have waited for response to fanotify permission
  events with SRCU read lock held and when the process consuming events
  was slow to respond the kernel has stalled.

  It also contains several cleanups of unnecessary indirections in
  fsnotify framework and a bugfix from Amir fixing leakage of kernel
  internal errno to userspace"

* 'fsnotify' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: (37 commits)
  fanotify: don't expose EOPENSTALE to userspace
  fsnotify: remove a stray unlock
  fsnotify: Move -&gt;free_mark callback to fsnotify_ops
  fsnotify: Add group pointer in fsnotify_init_mark()
  fsnotify: Drop inode_mark.c
  fsnotify: Remove fsnotify_find_{inode|vfsmount}_mark()
  fsnotify: Remove fsnotify_detach_group_marks()
  fsnotify: Rename fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags()
  fsnotify: Inline fsnotify_clear_{inode|vfsmount}_mark_group()
  fsnotify: Remove fsnotify_recalc_{inode|vfsmount}_mask()
  fsnotify: Remove fsnotify_set_mark_{,ignored_}mask_locked()
  fanotify: Release SRCU lock when waiting for userspace response
  fsnotify: Pass fsnotify_iter_info into handle_event handler
  fsnotify: Provide framework for dropping SRCU lock in -&gt;handle_event
  fsnotify: Remove special handling of mark destruction on group shutdown
  fsnotify: Detach mark from object list when last reference is dropped
  fsnotify: Move queueing of mark for destruction into fsnotify_put_mark()
  inotify: Do not drop mark reference under idr_lock
  fsnotify: Free fsnotify_mark_connector when there is no mark attached
  fsnotify: Lock object list with connector lock
  ...
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Pull fsnotify updates from Jan Kara:
 "The branch contains mainly a rework of fsnotify infrastructure fixing
  a shortcoming that we have waited for response to fanotify permission
  events with SRCU read lock held and when the process consuming events
  was slow to respond the kernel has stalled.

  It also contains several cleanups of unnecessary indirections in
  fsnotify framework and a bugfix from Amir fixing leakage of kernel
  internal errno to userspace"

* 'fsnotify' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: (37 commits)
  fanotify: don't expose EOPENSTALE to userspace
  fsnotify: remove a stray unlock
  fsnotify: Move -&gt;free_mark callback to fsnotify_ops
  fsnotify: Add group pointer in fsnotify_init_mark()
  fsnotify: Drop inode_mark.c
  fsnotify: Remove fsnotify_find_{inode|vfsmount}_mark()
  fsnotify: Remove fsnotify_detach_group_marks()
  fsnotify: Rename fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags()
  fsnotify: Inline fsnotify_clear_{inode|vfsmount}_mark_group()
  fsnotify: Remove fsnotify_recalc_{inode|vfsmount}_mask()
  fsnotify: Remove fsnotify_set_mark_{,ignored_}mask_locked()
  fanotify: Release SRCU lock when waiting for userspace response
  fsnotify: Pass fsnotify_iter_info into handle_event handler
  fsnotify: Provide framework for dropping SRCU lock in -&gt;handle_event
  fsnotify: Remove special handling of mark destruction on group shutdown
  fsnotify: Detach mark from object list when last reference is dropped
  fsnotify: Move queueing of mark for destruction into fsnotify_put_mark()
  inotify: Do not drop mark reference under idr_lock
  fsnotify: Free fsnotify_mark_connector when there is no mark attached
  fsnotify: Lock object list with connector lock
  ...
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<entry>
<title>audit: Use timespec64 to represent audit timestamps</title>
<updated>2017-05-02T14:16:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepa Dinamani</name>
<email>deepa.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-02T14:16:05+00:00</published>
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struct timespec is not y2038 safe.
Audit timestamps are recorded in string format into
an audit buffer for a given context.
These mark the entry timestamps for the syscalls.
Use y2038 safe struct timespec64 to represent the times.
The log strings can handle this transition as strings can
hold upto 1024 characters.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Guy Briggs &lt;rgb@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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struct timespec is not y2038 safe.
Audit timestamps are recorded in string format into
an audit buffer for a given context.
These mark the entry timestamps for the syscalls.
Use y2038 safe struct timespec64 to represent the times.
The log strings can handle this transition as strings can
hold upto 1024 characters.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Guy Briggs &lt;rgb@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fsnotify: Free fsnotify_mark_connector when there is no mark attached</title>
<updated>2017-04-10T15:37:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-01T08:21:58+00:00</published>
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Currently we free fsnotify_mark_connector structure only when inode /
vfsmount is getting freed. This can however impose noticeable memory
overhead when marks get attached to inodes only temporarily. So free the
connector structure once the last mark is detached from the object.
Since notification infrastructure can be working with the connector
under the protection of fsnotify_mark_srcu, we have to be careful and
free the fsnotify_mark_connector only after SRCU period passes.

Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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Currently we free fsnotify_mark_connector structure only when inode /
vfsmount is getting freed. This can however impose noticeable memory
overhead when marks get attached to inodes only temporarily. So free the
connector structure once the last mark is detached from the object.
Since notification infrastructure can be working with the connector
under the protection of fsnotify_mark_srcu, we have to be careful and
free the fsnotify_mark_connector only after SRCU period passes.

Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fsnotify: Move mark list head from object into dedicated structure</title>
<updated>2017-04-10T15:37:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-14T11:31:02+00:00</published>
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Currently notification marks are attached to object (inode or vfsmnt) by
a hlist_head in the object. The list is also protected by a spinlock in
the object. So while there is any mark attached to the list of marks,
the object must be pinned in memory (and thus e.g. last iput() deleting
inode cannot happen). Also for list iteration in fsnotify() to work, we
must hold fsnotify_mark_srcu lock so that mark itself and
mark-&gt;obj_list.next cannot get freed. Thus we are required to wait for
response to fanotify events from userspace process with
fsnotify_mark_srcu lock held. That causes issues when userspace process
is buggy and does not reply to some event - basically the whole
notification subsystem gets eventually stuck.

So to be able to drop fsnotify_mark_srcu lock while waiting for
response, we have to pin the mark in memory and make sure it stays in
the object list (as removing the mark waiting for response could lead to
lost notification events for groups later in the list). However we don't
want inode reclaim to block on such mark as that would lead to system
just locking up elsewhere.

This commit is the first in the series that paves way towards solving
these conflicting lifetime needs. Instead of anchoring the list of marks
directly in the object, we anchor it in a dedicated structure
(fsnotify_mark_connector) and just point to that structure from the
object. The following commits will also add spinlock protecting the list
and object pointer to the structure.

Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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Currently notification marks are attached to object (inode or vfsmnt) by
a hlist_head in the object. The list is also protected by a spinlock in
the object. So while there is any mark attached to the list of marks,
the object must be pinned in memory (and thus e.g. last iput() deleting
inode cannot happen). Also for list iteration in fsnotify() to work, we
must hold fsnotify_mark_srcu lock so that mark itself and
mark-&gt;obj_list.next cannot get freed. Thus we are required to wait for
response to fanotify events from userspace process with
fsnotify_mark_srcu lock held. That causes issues when userspace process
is buggy and does not reply to some event - basically the whole
notification subsystem gets eventually stuck.

So to be able to drop fsnotify_mark_srcu lock while waiting for
response, we have to pin the mark in memory and make sure it stays in
the object list (as removing the mark waiting for response could lead to
lost notification events for groups later in the list). However we don't
want inode reclaim to block on such mark as that would lead to system
just locking up elsewhere.

This commit is the first in the series that paves way towards solving
these conflicting lifetime needs. Instead of anchoring the list of marks
directly in the object, we anchor it in a dedicated structure
(fsnotify_mark_connector) and just point to that structure from the
object. The following commits will also add spinlock protecting the list
and object pointer to the structure.

Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>audit: move audit_signal_info() into kernel/auditsc.c</title>
<updated>2017-03-27T18:30:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul@paul-moore.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-27T18:30:06+00:00</published>
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Commit 5b52330bbfe6 ("audit: fix auditd/kernel connection state
tracking") made inlining audit_signal_info() a bit pointless as
it was always calling into auditd_test_task() so let's remove the
inline function in kernel/audit.h and convert __audit_signal_info()
in kernel/auditsc.c into audit_signal_info().

Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs &lt;rgb@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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Commit 5b52330bbfe6 ("audit: fix auditd/kernel connection state
tracking") made inlining audit_signal_info() a bit pointless as
it was always calling into auditd_test_task() so let's remove the
inline function in kernel/audit.h and convert __audit_signal_info()
in kernel/auditsc.c into audit_signal_info().

Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs &lt;rgb@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>audit: fix auditd/kernel connection state tracking</title>
<updated>2017-03-21T15:26:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul@paul-moore.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-21T15:26:35+00:00</published>
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What started as a rather straightforward race condition reported by
Dmitry using the syzkaller fuzzer ended up revealing some major
problems with how the audit subsystem managed its netlink sockets and
its connection with the userspace audit daemon.  Fixing this properly
had quite the cascading effect and what we are left with is this rather
large and complicated patch.  My initial goal was to try and decompose
this patch into multiple smaller patches, but the way these changes
are intertwined makes it difficult to split these changes into
meaningful pieces that don't break or somehow make things worse for
the intermediate states.

The patch makes a number of changes, but the most significant are
highlighted below:

* The auditd tracking variables, e.g. audit_sock, are now gone and
replaced by a RCU/spin_lock protected variable auditd_conn which is
a structure containing all of the auditd tracking information.

* We no longer track the auditd sock directly, instead we track it
via the network namespace in which it resides and we use the audit
socket associated with that namespace.  In spirit, this is what the
code was trying to do prior to this patch (at least I think that is
what the original authors intended), but it was done rather poorly
and added a layer of obfuscation that only masked the underlying
problems.

* Big backlog queue cleanup, again.  In v4.10 we made some pretty big
changes to how the audit backlog queues work, here we haven't changed
the queue design so much as cleaned up the implementation.  Brought
about by the locking changes, we've simplified kauditd_thread() quite
a bit by consolidating the queue handling into a new helper function,
kauditd_send_queue(), which allows us to eliminate a lot of very
similar code and makes the looping logic in kauditd_thread() clearer.

* All netlink messages sent to auditd are now sent via
auditd_send_unicast_skb().  Other than just making sense, this makes
the lock handling easier.

* Change the audit_log_start() sleep behavior so that we never sleep
on auditd events (unchanged) or if the caller is holding the
audit_cmd_mutex (changed).  Previously we didn't sleep if the caller
was auditd or if the message type fell between a certain range; the
type check was a poor effort of doing what the cmd_mutex check now
does.  Richard Guy Briggs originally proposed not sleeping the
cmd_mutex owner several years ago but his patch wasn't acceptable
at the time.  At least the idea lives on here.

* A problem with the lost record counter has been resolved.  Steve
Grubb and I both happened to notice this problem and according to
some quick testing by Steve, this problem goes back quite some time.
It's largely a harmless problem, although it may have left some
careful sysadmins quite puzzled.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.10.x-
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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What started as a rather straightforward race condition reported by
Dmitry using the syzkaller fuzzer ended up revealing some major
problems with how the audit subsystem managed its netlink sockets and
its connection with the userspace audit daemon.  Fixing this properly
had quite the cascading effect and what we are left with is this rather
large and complicated patch.  My initial goal was to try and decompose
this patch into multiple smaller patches, but the way these changes
are intertwined makes it difficult to split these changes into
meaningful pieces that don't break or somehow make things worse for
the intermediate states.

The patch makes a number of changes, but the most significant are
highlighted below:

* The auditd tracking variables, e.g. audit_sock, are now gone and
replaced by a RCU/spin_lock protected variable auditd_conn which is
a structure containing all of the auditd tracking information.

* We no longer track the auditd sock directly, instead we track it
via the network namespace in which it resides and we use the audit
socket associated with that namespace.  In spirit, this is what the
code was trying to do prior to this patch (at least I think that is
what the original authors intended), but it was done rather poorly
and added a layer of obfuscation that only masked the underlying
problems.

* Big backlog queue cleanup, again.  In v4.10 we made some pretty big
changes to how the audit backlog queues work, here we haven't changed
the queue design so much as cleaned up the implementation.  Brought
about by the locking changes, we've simplified kauditd_thread() quite
a bit by consolidating the queue handling into a new helper function,
kauditd_send_queue(), which allows us to eliminate a lot of very
similar code and makes the looping logic in kauditd_thread() clearer.

* All netlink messages sent to auditd are now sent via
auditd_send_unicast_skb().  Other than just making sense, this makes
the lock handling easier.

* Change the audit_log_start() sleep behavior so that we never sleep
on auditd events (unchanged) or if the caller is holding the
audit_cmd_mutex (changed).  Previously we didn't sleep if the caller
was auditd or if the message type fell between a certain range; the
type check was a poor effort of doing what the cmd_mutex check now
does.  Richard Guy Briggs originally proposed not sleeping the
cmd_mutex owner several years ago but his patch wasn't acceptable
at the time.  At least the idea lives on here.

* A problem with the lost record counter has been resolved.  Steve
Grubb and I both happened to notice this problem and according to
some quick testing by Steve, this problem goes back quite some time.
It's largely a harmless problem, although it may have left some
careful sysadmins quite puzzled.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.10.x-
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'stable-4.11' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit</title>
<updated>2017-02-21T21:25:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-21T21:25:50+00:00</published>
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Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:
 "The audit changes for v4.11 are relatively small compared to what we
  did for v4.10, both in terms of size and impact.

   - two patches from Steve tweak the formatting for some of the audit
     records to make them more consistent with other audit records.

   - three patches from Richard record the name of a module on module
     load, fix the logging of sockaddr information when using
     socketcall() on 32-bit systems, and add the ability to reset
     audit's lost record counter.

   - my lone patch just fixes an annoying style nit that I was reminded
     about by one of Richard's patches.

  All these patches pass our test suite"

* 'stable-4.11' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit:
  audit: remove unnecessary curly braces from switch/case statements
  audit: log module name on init_module
  audit: log 32-bit socketcalls
  audit: add feature audit_lost reset
  audit: Make AUDIT_ANOM_ABEND event normalized
  audit: Make AUDIT_KERNEL event conform to the specification
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Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:
 "The audit changes for v4.11 are relatively small compared to what we
  did for v4.10, both in terms of size and impact.

   - two patches from Steve tweak the formatting for some of the audit
     records to make them more consistent with other audit records.

   - three patches from Richard record the name of a module on module
     load, fix the logging of sockaddr information when using
     socketcall() on 32-bit systems, and add the ability to reset
     audit's lost record counter.

   - my lone patch just fixes an annoying style nit that I was reminded
     about by one of Richard's patches.

  All these patches pass our test suite"

* 'stable-4.11' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit:
  audit: remove unnecessary curly braces from switch/case statements
  audit: log module name on init_module
  audit: log 32-bit socketcalls
  audit: add feature audit_lost reset
  audit: Make AUDIT_ANOM_ABEND event normalized
  audit: Make AUDIT_KERNEL event conform to the specification
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>audit: remove unnecessary curly braces from switch/case statements</title>
<updated>2017-02-14T18:32:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul@paul-moore.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-13T21:21:25+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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