linux_dsm_epyc7002/kernel
Eric Paris aa4af831bb AUDIT: Allow login in non-init namespaces
It its possible to configure your PAM stack to refuse login if audit
messages (about the login) were unable to be sent.  This is common in
many distros and thus normal configuration of many containers.  The PAM
modules determine if audit is enabled/disabled in the kernel based on
the return value from sending an audit message on the netlink socket.
If userspace gets back ECONNREFUSED it believes audit is disabled in the
kernel.  If it gets any other error else it refuses to let the login
proceed.

Just about ever since the introduction of namespaces the kernel audit
subsystem has returned EPERM if the task sending a message was not in
the init user or pid namespace.  So many forms of containers have never
worked if audit was enabled in the kernel.

BUT if the container was not in net_init then the kernel network code
would send ECONNREFUSED (instead of the audit code sending EPERM).  Thus
by pure accident/dumb luck/bug if an admin configured the PAM stack to
reject all logins that didn't talk to audit, but then ran the login
untility in the non-init_net namespace, it would work!! Clearly this was
a bug, but it is a bug some people expected.

With the introduction of network namespace support in 3.14-rc1 the two
bugs stopped cancelling each other out.  Now, containers in the
non-init_net namespace refused to let users log in (just like PAM was
configfured!) Obviously some people were not happy that what used to let
users log in, now didn't!

This fix is kinda hacky.  We return ECONNREFUSED for all non-init
relevant namespaces.  That means that not only will the old broken
non-init_net setups continue to work, now the broken non-init_pid or
non-init_user setups will 'work'.  They don't really work, since audit
isn't logging things.  But it's what most users want.

In 3.15 we should have patches to support not only the non-init_net
(3.14) namespace but also the non-init_pid and non-init_user namespace.
So all will be right in the world.  This just opens the doors wide open
on 3.14 and hopefully makes users happy, if not the audit system...

Reported-by: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
Reported-by: Adam Richter <adam_richter2004@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-03-30 17:02:53 -07:00
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cpu
debug kgdb/kdb: Fix no KDB config problem 2014-01-25 08:55:09 +01:00
events perf: Fix hotplug splat 2014-02-27 12:38:03 +01:00
gcov
irq genirq: Include missing header file in irqdomain.c 2014-02-27 13:29:35 +01:00
locking
power arm, pm, vmpressure: add missing slab.h includes 2014-02-03 13:24:01 -05:00
printk printk: fix syslog() overflowing user buffer 2014-02-17 12:24:45 -08:00
rcu Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-01-28 08:38:04 -08:00
sched sched/clock: Prevent tracing recursion in sched_clock_cpu() 2014-03-11 11:33:48 +01:00
time time: Revert to calling clock_was_set_delayed() while in irq context 2014-03-28 08:07:07 +01:00
trace tracing: Fix traceon trigger condition to actually turn tracing on 2014-03-25 23:39:41 -04:00
.gitignore
acct.c
async.c
audit_tree.c inotify: Fix reporting of cookies for inotify events 2014-02-18 11:17:17 +01:00
audit_watch.c inotify: Fix reporting of cookies for inotify events 2014-02-18 11:17:17 +01:00
audit.c AUDIT: Allow login in non-init namespaces 2014-03-30 17:02:53 -07:00
audit.h audit: Use struct net not pid_t to remember the network namespce to reply in 2014-02-28 04:04:33 -08:00
auditfilter.c audit: Update kdoc for audit_send_reply and audit_list_rules_send 2014-03-08 15:31:54 -08:00
auditsc.c execve: use 'struct filename *' for executable name passing 2014-02-05 12:54:53 -08:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup_freezer.c
cgroup.c cgroup: fix a failure path in create_css() 2014-03-18 17:15:36 -04:00
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c
cpu_pm.c
cpu.c
cpuset.c cpuset: fix a race condition in __cpuset_node_allowed_softwall() 2014-02-27 09:39:54 -05:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c
delayacct.c
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c
extable.c
fork.c
freezer.c
futex_compat.c
futex.c futex: revert back to the explicit waiter counting code 2014-03-20 22:11:17 -07:00
groups.c
hrtimer.c
hung_task.c hung_task: Display every hung task warning 2014-01-25 12:13:33 +01:00
irq_work.c
itimer.c
jump_label.c
kallsyms.c
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kernel/kexec.c: use vscnprintf() instead of vsnprintf() in vmcoreinfo_append_str() 2014-01-27 21:02:40 -08:00
kmod.c execve: use 'struct filename *' for executable name passing 2014-02-05 12:54:53 -08:00
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c
kthread.c
latencytop.c
Makefile
module_signing.c
module-internal.h
module.c
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c
panic.c
params.c
pid_namespace.c
pid.c
posix-cpu-timers.c
posix-timers.c
profile.c mm: fix GFP_THISNODE callers and clarify 2014-03-10 17:26:19 -07:00
ptrace.c
range.c
reboot.c
relay.c
res_counter.c
resource.c
seccomp.c
signal.c
smp.c kernel/smp.c: remove cpumask_ipi 2014-01-30 16:56:54 -08:00
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
softirq.c Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-01-31 09:02:51 -08:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c stop_machine: Fix^2 race between stop_two_cpus() and stop_cpus() 2014-03-11 11:33:47 +01:00
sys_ni.c
sys.c
sysctl_binary.c
sysctl.c Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-01-31 08:59:46 -08:00
system_certificates.S
system_keyring.c
task_work.c
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
time.c
timeconst.bc
timer.c
tracepoint.c tracing: Do not add event files for modules that fail tracepoints 2014-03-03 21:11:05 -05:00
tsacct.c
uid16.c
up.c
user_namespace.c user_namespace.c: Remove duplicated word in comment 2014-02-20 11:58:35 -08:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c
watchdog.c
workqueue_internal.h
workqueue.c workqueue: ensure @task is valid across kthread_stop() 2014-02-18 16:35:20 -05:00