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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2012-01-03 14:23:06 -0500
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-01-17 16:16:56 -0500
commitd7e7528bcd456f5c36ad4a202ccfb43c5aa98bc4 (patch)
treeef49503b1dc52c52102e728dbd979c9309d5756b /kernel/auditsc.c
parent85e7bac33b8d5edafc4e219c7dfdb3d48e0b4e31 (diff)
Audit: push audit success and retcode into arch ptrace.h
The audit system previously expected arches calling to audit_syscall_exit to supply as arguments if the syscall was a success and what the return code was. Audit also provides a helper AUDITSC_RESULT which was supposed to simplify things by converting from negative retcodes to an audit internal magic value stating success or failure. This helper was wrong and could indicate that a valid pointer returned to userspace was a failed syscall. The fix is to fix the layering foolishness. We now pass audit_syscall_exit a struct pt_reg and it in turns calls back into arch code to collect the return value and to determine if the syscall was a success or failure. We also define a generic is_syscall_success() macro which determines success/failure based on if the value is < -MAX_ERRNO. This works for arches like x86 which do not use a separate mechanism to indicate syscall failure. We make both the is_syscall_success() and regs_return_value() static inlines instead of macros. The reason is because the audit function must take a void* for the regs. (uml calls theirs struct uml_pt_regs instead of just struct pt_regs so audit_syscall_exit can't take a struct pt_regs). Since the audit function takes a void* we need to use static inlines to cast it back to the arch correct structure to dereference it. The other major change is that on some arches, like ia64, MIPS and ppc, we change regs_return_value() to give us the negative value on syscall failure. THE only other user of this macro, kretprobe_example.c, won't notice and it makes the value signed consistently for the audit functions across all archs. In arch/sh/kernel/ptrace_64.c I see that we were using regs[9] in the old audit code as the return value. But the ptrace_64.h code defined the macro regs_return_value() as regs[3]. I have no idea which one is correct, but this patch now uses the regs_return_value() function, so it now uses regs[3]. For powerpc we previously used regs->result but now use the regs_return_value() function which uses regs->gprs[3]. regs->gprs[3] is always positive so the regs_return_value(), much like ia64 makes it negative before calling the audit code when appropriate. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> [for x86 portion] Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [for ia64] Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> [for uml] Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [for sparc] Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> [for mips] Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [for ppc]
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/auditsc.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/auditsc.c16
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index e9bcb93800d..3d285380818 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@
#include "audit.h"
+/* flags stating the success for a syscall */
+#define AUDITSC_INVALID 0
+#define AUDITSC_SUCCESS 1
+#define AUDITSC_FAILURE 2
+
/* AUDIT_NAMES is the number of slots we reserve in the audit_context
* for saving names from getname(). If we get more names we will allocate
* a name dynamically and also add those to the list anchored by names_list. */
@@ -1724,8 +1729,7 @@ void audit_finish_fork(struct task_struct *child)
/**
* audit_syscall_exit - deallocate audit context after a system call
- * @valid: success/failure flag
- * @return_code: syscall return value
+ * @pt_regs: syscall registers
*
* Tear down after system call. If the audit context has been marked as
* auditable (either because of the AUDIT_RECORD_CONTEXT state from
@@ -1733,13 +1737,17 @@ void audit_finish_fork(struct task_struct *child)
* message), then write out the syscall information. In call cases,
* free the names stored from getname().
*/
-void audit_syscall_exit(int valid, long return_code)
+void __audit_syscall_exit(int success, long return_code)
{
struct task_struct *tsk = current;
struct audit_context *context;
- context = audit_get_context(tsk, valid, return_code);
+ if (success)
+ success = AUDITSC_SUCCESS;
+ else
+ success = AUDITSC_FAILURE;
+ context = audit_get_context(tsk, success, return_code);
if (likely(!context))
return;