Hello,

The following auditd segfault occurs during shutdown but can be 
reproduced using the service stop command...

service auditd stop 2root@aug-test:/# 2021 Aug 4 12:47:22 aug-test 
Process 687 (auditd) of user 0 dumped core. 34Stack trace of thread 687: 
5#0 0x00007f18bb1657e4 fclose (libc.so.6) 6#1 0x000055b88ab50ec0 n/a 
(auditd) 7#2 0x000055b88ab4e421 n/a (auditd) 8#3 0x000055b88ab4d9a7 n/a 
(auditd) 9#4 0x00007f18bb11a09b __libc_start_main (libc.so.6) 10#5 
0x000055b88ab4df4a n/a (auditd)

Setting AUDIT_WRITE_LOGS to "yes" corrects this problem however we have 
a requirement to disable these logs (i.e. AUDIT_WRITE_LOGS needs to be 
set to "no")

After perusing the source I suspect that one of these unconditional 
fclose()s is causing the problem...

git diff ./src/aureport.c
diff --git a/src/aureport.c b/src/aureport.c
index 22618f0..6359144 100644
--- a/src/aureport.c
+++ b/src/aureport.c
@@ -277,7 +277,8 @@ static int process_log_fd(const char *filename)
                 list_clear(entries);
                 free(entries);
         } while (ret == 0);
-       fclose(log_fd);
+       if (log_fd)
+               fclose(log_fd);
         // This is the per file action items
         very_last_event.sec = last_event.sec;
         very_last_event.milli = last_event.milli;

git diff ./src/ausearch.c

diff --git a/src/ausearch.c b/src/ausearch.c

index 4a6bdae..df14df5 100644

--- a/src/ausearch.c

+++ b/src/ausearch.c

@@ -481,7 +481,8 @@ static int process_log_fd(void)

                                 checkpt_failure |= CP_CORRUPTED;

                                 list_clear(entries);

                                 free(entries);

-                               fclose(log_fd);

+                               if (log_fd)

+                                       fclose(log_fd);

                                 return 10;

                         }

                         if (just_one) {

@@ -497,7 +498,8 @@ static int process_log_fd(void)

                         if (set_ChkPtLastEvent(&entries->e)) {

                                 list_clear(entries);

                                 free(entries);

-                               fclose(log_fd);

+                               if (log_fd)

+                                       fclose(log_fd);

                                 return 4;       /* no memory */

                         }

                 }

@@ -505,7 +507,8 @@ static int process_log_fd(void)

                 list_clear(entries);

                 free(entries);

         } while (ret == 0);

-       fclose(log_fd);

+       if (log_fd)

+               fclose(log_fd);

  

         return 0;

  }


However I have not tested these changes.  Even though this is a benign 
problem I believe that it warrants a correction. Please open a ticket 
and respond with the ticket id so that we can track this problem/solution.

-- 
Kind Regards,

Thomas Brown

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