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[PATCH] Audit: make audit=0 actually turn off audit
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Currently audit=0 on the kernel command line does absolutely nothing.
Audit always loads and always uses its resources such as creating the
kernel netlink socket.  This patch causes audit=0 to actually disable
audit.  Audit will use no resources and starting the userspace auditd
daemon will not cause the kernel audit system to activate.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Eric Paris authored and Al Viro committed Dec 9, 2008
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28 changes: 21 additions & 7 deletions kernel/audit.c
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#include "audit.h"

/* No auditing will take place until audit_initialized != 0.
/* No auditing will take place until audit_initialized == AUDIT_INITIALIZED.
* (Initialization happens after skb_init is called.) */
#define AUDIT_DISABLED -1
#define AUDIT_UNINITIALIZED 0
#define AUDIT_INITIALIZED 1
static int audit_initialized;

#define AUDIT_OFF 0
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{
int i;

if (audit_initialized == AUDIT_DISABLED)
return 0;

printk(KERN_INFO "audit: initializing netlink socket (%s)\n",
audit_default ? "enabled" : "disabled");
audit_sock = netlink_kernel_create(&init_net, NETLINK_AUDIT, 0,
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skb_queue_head_init(&audit_skb_queue);
skb_queue_head_init(&audit_skb_hold_queue);
audit_initialized = 1;
audit_initialized = AUDIT_INITIALIZED;
audit_enabled = audit_default;
audit_ever_enabled |= !!audit_default;

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static int __init audit_enable(char *str)
{
audit_default = !!simple_strtol(str, NULL, 0);
printk(KERN_INFO "audit: %s%s\n",
audit_default ? "enabled" : "disabled",
audit_initialized ? "" : " (after initialization)");
if (audit_initialized) {
if (!audit_default)
audit_initialized = AUDIT_DISABLED;

printk(KERN_INFO "audit: %s", audit_default ? "enabled" : "disabled");

if (audit_initialized == AUDIT_INITIALIZED) {
audit_enabled = audit_default;
audit_ever_enabled |= !!audit_default;
} else if (audit_initialized == AUDIT_UNINITIALIZED) {
printk(" (after initialization)");
} else {
printk(" (until reboot)");
}
printk("\n");

return 1;
}

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int reserve;
unsigned long timeout_start = jiffies;

if (!audit_initialized)
if (audit_initialized != AUDIT_INITIALIZED)
return NULL;

if (unlikely(audit_filter_type(type)))
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