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[v2] audit: use task_tgid_nr() instead of task_pid_nr()

Message ID 20240828112528.954163-1-rrobaina@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Delegated to: Paul Moore
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Series [v2] audit: use task_tgid_nr() instead of task_pid_nr() | expand

Commit Message

Ricardo Robaina Aug. 28, 2024, 11:25 a.m. UTC
In a few audit records, PIDs were being recorded with task_pid_nr()
instead of task_tgid_nr().

$ grep "task_pid_nr" kernel/audit*.c
audit.c:       task_pid_nr(current),
auditfilter.c: pid = task_pid_nr(current);
auditsc.c:     audit_log_format(ab, " pid=%u", task_pid_nr(current));

For single-thread applications, the process id (pid) and the thread
group id (tgid) are the same. However, on multi-thread applications,
task_pid_nr() returns the current thread id (user-space's TID), while
task_tgid_nr() returns the main thread id (user-space's PID). Since
the users are more interested in the process id (pid), rather than the
thread id (tid), this patch converts these callers to the correct method.

Link: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/126

Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com>
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V1 -> V2: Added a more detailed commit description

 kernel/audit.c       | 2 +-
 kernel/auditfilter.c | 2 +-
 kernel/auditsc.c     | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Paul Moore Aug. 28, 2024, 8:48 p.m. UTC | #1
On Aug 28, 2024 Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> In a few audit records, PIDs were being recorded with task_pid_nr()
> instead of task_tgid_nr().
> 
> $ grep "task_pid_nr" kernel/audit*.c
> audit.c:       task_pid_nr(current),
> auditfilter.c: pid = task_pid_nr(current);
> auditsc.c:     audit_log_format(ab, " pid=%u", task_pid_nr(current));
> 
> For single-thread applications, the process id (pid) and the thread
> group id (tgid) are the same. However, on multi-thread applications,
> task_pid_nr() returns the current thread id (user-space's TID), while
> task_tgid_nr() returns the main thread id (user-space's PID). Since
> the users are more interested in the process id (pid), rather than the
> thread id (tid), this patch converts these callers to the correct method.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/126
> 
> Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com>
> ---
> V1 -> V2: Added a more detailed commit description
> 
>  kernel/audit.c       | 2 +-
>  kernel/auditfilter.c | 2 +-
>  kernel/auditsc.c     | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Looks good to me, merged into audit/dev, thanks!

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diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index e7a62ebbf4d1..9f6b86acab62 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -1612,7 +1612,7 @@  static void audit_log_multicast(int group, const char *op, int err)
 	cred = current_cred();
 	tty = audit_get_tty();
 	audit_log_format(ab, "pid=%u uid=%u auid=%u tty=%s ses=%u",
-			 task_pid_nr(current),
+			 task_tgid_nr(current),
 			 from_kuid(&init_user_ns, cred->uid),
 			 from_kuid(&init_user_ns, audit_get_loginuid(current)),
 			 tty ? tty_name(tty) : "(none)",
diff --git a/kernel/auditfilter.c b/kernel/auditfilter.c
index d6ef4f4f9cba..470041c49a44 100644
--- a/kernel/auditfilter.c
+++ b/kernel/auditfilter.c
@@ -1344,7 +1344,7 @@  int audit_filter(int msgtype, unsigned int listtype)
 
 			switch (f->type) {
 			case AUDIT_PID:
-				pid = task_pid_nr(current);
+				pid = task_tgid_nr(current);
 				result = audit_comparator(pid, f->op, f->val);
 				break;
 			case AUDIT_UID:
diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index 6f0d6fb6523f..cd57053b4a69 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -2933,7 +2933,7 @@  void __audit_log_nfcfg(const char *name, u8 af, unsigned int nentries,
 	audit_log_format(ab, "table=%s family=%u entries=%u op=%s",
 			 name, af, nentries, audit_nfcfgs[op].s);
 
-	audit_log_format(ab, " pid=%u", task_pid_nr(current));
+	audit_log_format(ab, " pid=%u", task_tgid_nr(current));
 	audit_log_task_context(ab); /* subj= */
 	audit_log_format(ab, " comm=");
 	audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, get_task_comm(comm, current));