New style permitnonkernelfacility imklog option inside module() doesn't work

[Andreas Hasenack]

artful 8.16.0-1ubuntu5 (which is way behind upstream and debian, btw)

There are two ways to load the imklog module and pass it an option (PermitNonKernelFacility in this case).

a) legacy
$ModLoad imklog
$KLogPermitNonKernelFacility on

b) "new style", also referred to as "v6+":
module(load="imklog" permitnonkernelfacility="on")

For a while the ubuntu package was using a mix: loading the module with the new style, but setting the option via the legacy method. In bug #1531622 this was fixed for yakkety+.

Problem is, upstream isn't honouring the new style option setting due to a bug of its own: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/477

With the legacy config:
#module(load="imklog" permitnonkernelfacility="on")
$ModLoad imklog
$KLogPermitNonKernelFacility on

I get kernel messages in /var/log/syslog:
root@nsn7:~# grep andreas-was-here /var/log/syslog
root@nsn7:~# echo andreas-was-here > /dev/kmsg
root@nsn7:~# grep andreas-was-here /var/log/syslog
Jul 12 16:46:33 nsn7 kernel: [27774.476193] andreas-was-here
root@nsn7:~#

But with this new v6 config style:
module(load="imklog" permitnonkernelfacility="on") # provides kernel logging support
#$ModLoad imklog
#$KLogPermitNonKernelFacility on

The text doesn't show up in /var/log/syslog. That's the upstream bug.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

I have test packages built with the patch mentioned in the github issue:

https://launchpad.net/~ahasenack/+archive/ubuntu/rsyslog-permitnonkernelfacility-1703987

A quick test shows it works as expected now using the new style config.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

The fix was accepted upstream and committed: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/477#issuecomment-314878627

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Uploaded.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package rsyslog - 8.16.0-1ubuntu6

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rsyslog (8.16.0-1ubuntu6) artful; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/fix-permitnonkernelfacility-1703987.patch: Fix
    setting of permitnonkernelfacility with new style config.
    (LP: #1703987)

 -- Andreas Hasenack <email address hidden> Wed, 12 Jul 2017 17:30:08 -0300

[Mikko Rantalainen (mira)]

Could this be backported to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS? It still only has 8.16.0-1ubuntu3.

[Eric G (erickg)]

Still seems to be a problem for 16.04.