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author | Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> | 2016-01-09 22:55:30 -0800 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-01-27 16:41:04 -0800 |
commit | b50819f437c094b4beb2e8684fbe12bbe79fb331 (patch) | |
tree | 2b039e0871315df7711346116f571ede03e39012 /kernel/audit.c | |
parent | f229c2c161de94a404fa16a17cb93c4a06938af5 (diff) | |
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tty: audit: Ignore current association for audit push
In canonical read mode, each line read and logged is pushed separately
with tty_audit_push(). For all single-threaded processes and multi-threaded
processes reading from only one tty, this patch has no effect; the last line
read will still be the entry pushed to the audit log because the tty
association cannot have changed between tty_audit_add_data() and
tty_audit_push().
For multi-threaded processes reading from different ttys concurrently,
the audit log will have mixed log entries anyway. Consider two ttys
audited concurrently:
CPU0 CPU1
---------- ------------
tty_audit_add_data(ttyA)
tty_audit_add_data(ttyB)
tty_audit_push()
tty_audit_add_data(ttyB)
tty_audit_push()
This patch will now cause the ttyB output to be split into separate
audit log entries.
However, this possibility is equally likely without this patch:
CPU0 CPU1
---------- ------------
tty_audit_add_data(ttyB)
tty_audit_add_data(ttyA)
tty_audit_push()
tty_audit_add_data(ttyB)
tty_audit_push()
Mixed canonical and non-canonical reads have similar races.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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