audit: handle unknown status requests in audit_receive_msg()

Currently, audit_receive_msg() ignores unknown status bits in AUDIT_SET
requests, incorrectly returning success to newer user space tools
querying unsupported features. This breaks forward compatibility.

Fix this by defining AUDIT_STATUS_ALL and returning -EINVAL if any
unrecognized bits are set (s.mask & ~AUDIT_STATUS_ALL).
This ensures invalid requests are safely rejected, allowing user space
to reliably test for and gracefully handle feature detection on older
kernels.

Suggested-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com>
[PM: subject line tweak]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

Author: rprobaina

include/linux/audit.h

@@ -15,6 +15,15 @@
 #include <uapi/linux/audit.h>
 #include <uapi/linux/fanotify.h>
 
+#define AUDIT_STATUS_ALL (AUDIT_STATUS_ENABLED | \
+			  AUDIT_STATUS_FAILURE | \
+			  AUDIT_STATUS_PID | \
+			  AUDIT_STATUS_RATE_LIMIT | \
+			  AUDIT_STATUS_BACKLOG_LIMIT | \
+			  AUDIT_STATUS_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME | \
+			  AUDIT_STATUS_LOST | \
+			  AUDIT_STATUS_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME_ACTUAL)
+
 #define AUDIT_INO_UNSET ((unsigned long)-1)
 #define AUDIT_DEV_UNSET ((dev_t)-1)
 

kernel/audit.c

@@ -1295,6 +1295,8 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 		memset(&s, 0, sizeof(s));
 		/* guard against past and future API changes */
 		memcpy(&s, data, min_t(size_t, sizeof(s), data_len));
+		if (s.mask & ~AUDIT_STATUS_ALL)
+			return -EINVAL;
 		if (s.mask & AUDIT_STATUS_ENABLED) {
 			err = audit_set_enabled(s.enabled);
 			if (err < 0)