Re: [PATCH v2] audit,module: restore audit logging in load failure case

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On 3/17/25 20:57, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> The move of the module sanity check to earlier skipped the audit logging
> call in the case of failure and to a place where the previously used
> context is unavailable.
> 
> Add an audit logging call for the module loading failure case and get
> the module name when possible.
> 
> Link: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-52839
> Fixes: 02da2cbab452 ("module: move check_modinfo() early to early_mod_check()")
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>

The change looks reasonable to me from the modules perspective.

Nit: Viewing the linked address requires a login, so I'm not sure it's
appropriate for the commit message.

[...]

> diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c
> index 1fb9ad289a6f..efa62ace1b23 100644
> --- a/kernel/module/main.c
> +++ b/kernel/module/main.c
> @@ -3346,7 +3346,7 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info *info, const char __user *uargs,
>  
>  	module_allocated = true;
>  
> -	audit_log_kern_module(mod->name);
> +	audit_log_kern_module(info->name);
>  
>  	/* Reserve our place in the list. */
>  	err = add_unformed_module(mod);
> @@ -3506,8 +3506,10 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info *info, const char __user *uargs,
>  	 * failures once the proper module was allocated and
>  	 * before that.
>  	 */
> -	if (!module_allocated)
> +	if (!module_allocated) {
> +		audit_log_kern_module(info->name ? info->name : "(unavailable)");
>  		mod_stat_bump_becoming(info, flags);
> +	}
>  	free_copy(info, flags);
>  	return err;
>  }

Nit:
		audit_log_kern_module(info->name ? info->name : "(unavailable)");
->
		audit_log_kern_module(info->name ?: "(unavailable)");

-- 
Thanks,
Petr




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