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-rw-r--r--kernel/audit.c11
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,