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| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/auditsc.c | 10 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index fed81b576f29..18a98c893d07 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -301,20 +301,6 @@ config AUDIT_TREE depends on AUDITSYSCALL select FSNOTIFY -config AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE - bool "Make audit loginuid immutable" - depends on AUDIT - help - The config option toggles if a task setting its loginuid requires - CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions - but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never - previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central - process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older - systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and - start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows - one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks, - but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems. - source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" source "kernel/time/Kconfig" diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c index 72684679e8bd..b55788bf1607 100644 --- a/kernel/auditsc.c +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c @@ -1968,15 +1968,13 @@ static atomic_t session_id = ATOMIC_INIT(0); static int audit_set_loginuid_perm(kuid_t loginuid) { -#ifdef CONFIG_AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE /* if we are unset, we don't need privs */ if (!audit_loginuid_set(current)) return 0; -#else /* CONFIG_AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE */ - if (capable(CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL)) - return 0; -#endif /* CONFIG_AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE */ - return -EPERM; + /* it is set, you need permission */ + if (!capable(CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL)) + return -EPERM; + return 0; } static void audit_log_set_loginuid(kuid_t koldloginuid, kuid_t kloginuid, |