[PATCH 4.9 089/151] audit: print empty EXECVE args

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Nov 27 2019 - 15:43:07 EST


From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit ea956d8be91edc702a98b7fe1f9463e7ca8c42ab ]

Empty executable arguments were being skipped when printing out the list
of arguments in an EXECVE record, making it appear they were somehow
lost. Include empty arguments as an itemized empty string.

Reproducer:
autrace /bin/ls "" "/etc"
ausearch --start recent -m execve -i | grep EXECVE
type=EXECVE msg=audit(10/03/2018 13:04:03.208:1391) : argc=3 a0=/bin/ls a2=/etc

With fix:
type=EXECVE msg=audit(10/03/2018 21:51:38.290:194) : argc=3 a0=/bin/ls a1= a2=/etc
type=EXECVE msg=audit(1538617898.290:194): argc=3 a0="/bin/ls" a1="" a2="/etc"

Passes audit-testsuite. GH issue tracker at
https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/99

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
[PM: cleaned up the commit metadata]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/auditsc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index c2aaf539728fb..854e90be1a023 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -1096,7 +1096,7 @@ static void audit_log_execve_info(struct audit_context *context,
}

/* write as much as we can to the audit log */
- if (len_buf > 0) {
+ if (len_buf >= 0) {
/* NOTE: some magic numbers here - basically if we
* can't fit a reasonable amount of data into the
* existing audit buffer, flush it and start with
--
2.20.1