[PATCH] audit: consistently record PIDs with task_tgid_nr()

Paul Moore pmoore at redhat.com
Tue Aug 30 21:15:51 UTC 2016


On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Paul Moore <pmoore at redhat.com> wrote:
> From: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
>
> Unfortunately we record PIDs in audit records using a variety of
> methods despite the correct way being the use of task_tgid_nr().
> This patch converts all of these callers, except for the case of
> AUDIT_SET in audit_receive_msg() (see the comment in the code).
>
> Reported-by: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv at google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
> ---
>  kernel/audit.c       |    8 +++++++-
>  kernel/auditsc.c     |   12 ++++++------
>  security/lsm_audit.c |    4 ++--
>  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

I forgot to tag this with "RFC".  This patch compiles but I haven't
had a chance to test it yet so it isn't going into audit#next just
yet; if you have any concerns, now is the time to voice them.

-- 
paul moore
security @ redhat




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