lsm_audit: avoid overloading the "key" audit field
authorOndrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:15:16 +0000 (15:15 +0200)
committerPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 02:47:04 +0000 (22:47 -0400)
The "key" field is used to associate records with the rule that
triggered them, os it's not a good idea to overload it with an
additional IPC key semantic. Moreover, as the classic "key" field is a
text field, while the IPC key is numeric, AVC records containing the IPC
key info actually confuse audit userspace, which tries to interpret the
number as a hex-encoded string, thus showing garbage for example in the
ausearch "interpret" output mode.

Hence, change it to "ipc_key" to fix both issues and also make the
meaning of this field more clear.

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
security/lsm_audit.c

index 5a5016e..1897cbf 100644 (file)
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ static void dump_common_audit_data(struct audit_buffer *ab,
        case LSM_AUDIT_DATA_NONE:
                return;
        case LSM_AUDIT_DATA_IPC:
-               audit_log_format(ab, " key=%d ", a->u.ipc_id);
+               audit_log_format(ab, " ipc_key=%d ", a->u.ipc_id);
                break;
        case LSM_AUDIT_DATA_CAP:
                audit_log_format(ab, " capability=%d ", a->u.cap);