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audit: add restricted capability read-only netlink multicast socket

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1/5audit: move kaudit thread start from auditd registration to kaudit initkernel/audit.c+5 -100 replies
2/5netlink: have netlink per-protocol bind function return an error code.include/linux/netlink.h net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c net/netlink/af_netlink.c +1 more+24 -180 replies
3/5audit: add netlink audit protocol bind to check capabilities on multicast joinkernel/audit.c+10 -02 replies
4/5audit: add netlink multicast group for log readinclude/uapi/linux/audit.h include/uapi/linux/capability.h kernel/audit.c +1 more+54 -24 replies
5/5audit: send multicast messages only if there are listenerskernel/audit.c+2 -00 replies

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Cover letter [PATCH 0/5] audit: add restricted capability read-only netlink multicast socket

Hi,

This patch set adds a restricted capability read-only netlink multicast socket to kaudit to enable userspace clients such as systemd to consume audit logs, in addition to the existing bidirectional auditd userspace client.

Currently, auditd has the CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL and CAP_AUDIT_WRITE capabilities (both use CAP_NET_ADMIN). The CAP_AUDIT_READ capability will be added for use by read-only AUDIT_NLGRP_READLOG multicast group clients to the kaudit subsystem.

This is accomplished by modifying the optional netlink per-protocol bind function to return an error code.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887992

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First posted: https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2013-January/msg00008.html

		https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/27/279

Richard Guy Briggs (5):
audit: move kaudit thread start from auditd registration to kaudit
init
netlink: have netlink per-protocol bind function return an error
code.
audit: add netlink audit protocol bind to check capabilities on
multicast join
audit: add netlink multicast group for log read
audit: send multicast messages only if there are listeners

 include/linux/netlink.h             |    2 +-
 include/uapi/linux/audit.h          |    8 ++++
 include/uapi/linux/capability.h     |    7 +++-
 kernel/audit.c                      |   66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c           |    6 ++-
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c            |   30 +++++++++-------
 net/netlink/af_netlink.h            |    4 +-
 security/selinux/include/classmap.h |    2 +-
 8 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)