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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/audit.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index 10c4930c2bbf..be55cb503633 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -78,9 +78,13 @@ static int audit_default; /* If auditing cannot proceed, audit_failure selects what happens. */ static int audit_failure = AUDIT_FAIL_PRINTK; -/* If audit records are to be written to the netlink socket, audit_pid - * contains the (non-zero) pid. */ +/* + * If audit records are to be written to the netlink socket, audit_pid + * contains the pid of the auditd process and audit_nlk_pid contains + * the pid to use to send netlink messages to that process. + */ int audit_pid; +static int audit_nlk_pid; /* If audit_rate_limit is non-zero, limit the rate of sending audit records * to that number per second. This prevents DoS attacks, but results in @@ -350,7 +354,7 @@ static int kauditd_thread(void *dummy) wake_up(&audit_backlog_wait); if (skb) { if (audit_pid) { - int err = netlink_unicast(audit_sock, skb, audit_pid, 0); + int err = netlink_unicast(audit_sock, skb, audit_nlk_pid, 0); if (err < 0) { BUG_ON(err != -ECONNREFUSED); /* Shoudn't happen */ printk(KERN_ERR "audit: *NO* daemon at audit_pid=%d\n", audit_pid); @@ -626,6 +630,7 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh) sid, 1); audit_pid = new_pid; + audit_nlk_pid = NETLINK_CB(skb).pid; } if (status_get->mask & AUDIT_STATUS_RATE_LIMIT) err = audit_set_rate_limit(status_get->rate_limit, |