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audit: allow unsetting the loginuid (with priv)

If a task has CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL allow that task to unset their loginuid.
This would allow a child of that task to set their loginuid without
CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL.  Thus when launching a new login daemon, a
priviledged helper would be able to unset the loginuid and then the
daemon, which may be malicious user facing, do not need priv to function
correctly.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Eric Paris 12 years ago
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81407c84ac
2 changed files with 13 additions and 5 deletions
  1. 10 4
      fs/proc/base.c
  2. 3 1
      kernel/auditsc.c

+ 10 - 4
fs/proc/base.c

@@ -1151,10 +1151,16 @@ static ssize_t proc_loginuid_write(struct file * file, const char __user * buf,
 		goto out_free_page;
 
 	}
-	kloginuid = make_kuid(file->f_cred->user_ns, loginuid);
-	if (!uid_valid(kloginuid)) {
-		length = -EINVAL;
-		goto out_free_page;
+
+	/* is userspace tring to explicitly UNSET the loginuid? */
+	if (loginuid == AUDIT_UID_UNSET) {
+		kloginuid = INVALID_UID;
+	} else {
+		kloginuid = make_kuid(file->f_cred->user_ns, loginuid);
+		if (!uid_valid(kloginuid)) {
+			length = -EINVAL;
+			goto out_free_page;
+		}
 	}
 
 	length = audit_set_loginuid(kloginuid);

+ 3 - 1
kernel/auditsc.c

@@ -2019,7 +2019,9 @@ int audit_set_loginuid(kuid_t loginuid)
 	if (rc)
 		goto out;
 
-	sessionid = atomic_inc_return(&session_id);
+	/* are we setting or clearing? */
+	if (uid_valid(loginuid))
+		sessionid = atomic_inc_return(&session_id);
 
 	task->sessionid = sessionid;
 	task->loginuid = loginuid;