[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "audit: vfs: fix audit_inode call in O_CREAT case of do_last" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    audit: vfs: fix audit_inode call in O_CREAT case of do_last

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From d7026136b6a12060679f6573c441772ecd71660e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:16:32 -0400
Subject: audit: vfs: fix audit_inode call in O_CREAT case of do_last

commit 33e2208acfc15ce00d3dd13e839bf6434faa2b04 upstream.

Jiri reported a regression in auditing of open(..., O_CREAT) syscalls.
In older kernels, creating a file with open(..., O_CREAT) created
audit_name records that looked like this:

type=PATH msg=audit(1360255720.628:64): item=1 name="/abc/foo" inode=138810 dev=fd:00 mode=0100640 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=unconfined_u:object_r:default_t:s0
type=PATH msg=audit(1360255720.628:64): item=0 name="/abc/" inode=138635 dev=fd:00 mode=040750 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=unconfined_u:object_r:default_t:s0

...in recent kernels though, they look like this:

type=PATH msg=audit(1360255402.886:12574): item=2 name=(null) inode=264599 dev=fd:00 mode=0100640 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=unconfined_u:object_r:default_t:s0
type=PATH msg=audit(1360255402.886:12574): item=1 name=(null) inode=264598 dev=fd:00 mode=040750 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=unconfined_u:object_r:default_t:s0
type=PATH msg=audit(1360255402.886:12574): item=0 name="/abc/foo" inode=264598 dev=fd:00 mode=040750 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=unconfined_u:object_r:default_t:s0

Richard bisected to determine that the problems started with commit
bfcec708, but the log messages have changed with some later
audit-related patches.

The problem is that this audit_inode call is passing in the parent of
the dentry being opened, but audit_inode is being called with the parent
flag false. This causes later audit_inode and audit_inode_child calls to
match the wrong entry in the audit_names list.

This patch simply sets the flag to properly indicate that this inode
represents the parent. With this, the audit_names entries are back to
looking like they did before.

Reported-by: Jiri Jaburek <jjaburek at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
Test By: Richard Guy Briggs <rbriggs at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/namei.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index ec97aef..77dc200 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2749,7 +2749,7 @@ static int do_last(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
 		if (error)
 			return error;

-		audit_inode(name, dir, 0);
+		audit_inode(name, dir, LOOKUP_PARENT);
 		error = -EISDIR;
 		/* trailing slashes? */
 		if (nd->last.name[nd->last.len])
--
1.8.1.2