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authorGreg Edwards <gedwards@ddn.com>2018-03-05 15:05:20 -0700
committerPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>2018-03-06 13:50:07 -0500
commit11dd2666375e191757dd4271d5020820c6d0e4a5 (patch)
treec1f4f29419c7e4f7a1258bd2dd3815667d548837 /Documentation/admin-guide
parentce423631ce1f20564f818e7de6bc0eee0c01badd (diff)
audit: do not panic on invalid boot parameter
If you pass in an invalid audit boot parameter value, e.g. "audit=off", the kernel panics very early in boot before the regular console is initialized. Unless you have earlyprintk enabled, there is no indication of what the problem is on the console. Convert the panic() calls to pr_err(), and leave auditing enabled if an invalid parameter value was passed in. Modify the parameter to also accept "on" or "off" as valid values, and update the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Greg Edwards <gedwards@ddn.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 46b26bfee27b..93366b00bb62 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -387,15 +387,15 @@
Use software keyboard repeat
audit= [KNL] Enable the audit sub-system
- Format: { "0" | "1" } (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
- 0 - kernel audit is disabled and can not be enabled
- until the next reboot
+ Format: { "0" | "1" | "off" | "on" }
+ 0 | off - kernel audit is disabled and can not be
+ enabled until the next reboot
unset - kernel audit is initialized but disabled and
will be fully enabled by the userspace auditd.
- 1 - kernel audit is initialized and partially enabled,
- storing at most audit_backlog_limit messages in
- RAM until it is fully enabled by the userspace
- auditd.
+ 1 | on - kernel audit is initialized and partially
+ enabled, storing at most audit_backlog_limit
+ messages in RAM until it is fully enabled by the
+ userspace auditd.
Default: unset
audit_backlog_limit= [KNL] Set the audit queue size limit.