[PATCH] change lspp inode auditing
Steve Grubb
sgrubb at redhat.com
Thu Mar 30 18:47:30 UTC 2006
On Thursday 30 March 2006 10:48, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > Not much value in displaying the SID, although we do it elsewhere as
> > well (e.g. in the AVC) as a fallback - mapping it will then require a
> > dump of kernel memory at that time. Likely have to call audit_panic in
> > this scenario to meet the criteria, but the admin can always set
> > audit_panic to not actually panic the machine.
>
> I'll patch it to call audit_panic, but that is not the solution. For
> example, suppose the syscall was to rename, sendfile, unlink, or link to a
> file...even though we panic they were able to do the action. If it was
> rename a file, they can now access the file when it comes back up and not
> be audited. I think that the correct course of action is to log the number
> and figure out how to close the loop on the mapping the sid to context
> post-mortem.
OK, below is a patch that I think addresses all issues pointed out. I've
benchmarked it and we are at 23% performance hit. That's much better
than before.
Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com>
diff -urp linux-2.6.16.x86_64.orig/include/linux/selinux.h linux-2.6.16.x86_64/include/linux/selinux.h
--- linux-2.6.16.x86_64.orig/include/linux/selinux.h 2006-03-30 12:01:15.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.16.x86_64/include/linux/selinux.h 2006-03-30 12:04:42.000000000 -0500
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
struct selinux_audit_rule;
struct audit_context;
+struct inode;
#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX
@@ -76,6 +77,27 @@ void selinux_audit_set_callback(int (*ca
*/
void selinux_task_ctxid(struct task_struct *tsk, u32 *ctxid);
+/**
+ * selinux_ctxid_to_string - map a security context ID to a string
+ * @ctxid: security context ID to be converted.
+ * @ctx: address of context string to be returned
+ * @ctxlen: length of returned context string.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 if successful, -errno if not. On success, the context
+ * string will be allocated internally, and the caller must call
+ * kfree() on it after use.
+ */
+int selinux_ctxid_to_string(u32 ctxid, char **ctx, u32 *ctxlen);
+
+/**
+ * selinux_get_inode_sid - get the inode's security context ID
+ * @inode: inode structure to get the sid from.
+ * @sid: pointer to security context ID to be filled in.
+ *
+ * Returns nothing
+ */
+void selinux_get_inode_sid(const struct inode *inode, u32 *sid);
+
#else
static inline int selinux_audit_rule_init(u32 field, u32 op,
@@ -107,6 +128,18 @@ static inline void selinux_task_ctxid(st
*ctxid = 0;
}
+static inline int selinux_ctxid_to_string(u32 ctxid, char **ctx, u32 *ctxlen)
+{
+ *ctx = NULL;
+ *ctxlen = 0;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static inline void selinux_get_inode_sid(const struct inode *inode, u32 *sid)
+{
+ *sid = 0;
+}
+
#endif /* CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX */
#endif /* _LINUX_SELINUX_H */
diff -urp linux-2.6.16.x86_64.orig/kernel/auditsc.c linux-2.6.16.x86_64/kernel/auditsc.c
--- linux-2.6.16.x86_64.orig/kernel/auditsc.c 2006-03-30 12:01:21.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.16.x86_64/kernel/auditsc.c 2006-03-30 12:06:01.000000000 -0500
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ struct audit_names {
uid_t uid;
gid_t gid;
dev_t rdev;
- char *ctx;
+ u32 osid;
};
struct audit_aux_data {
@@ -435,9 +435,6 @@ static inline void audit_free_names(stru
#endif
for (i = 0; i < context->name_count; i++) {
- char *p = context->names[i].ctx;
- context->names[i].ctx = NULL;
- kfree(p);
if (context->names[i].name)
__putname(context->names[i].name);
}
@@ -700,6 +697,7 @@ static void audit_log_exit(struct audit_
}
}
for (i = 0; i < context->name_count; i++) {
+ int call_panic = 0;
unsigned long ino = context->names[i].ino;
unsigned long pino = context->names[i].pino;
@@ -729,12 +727,22 @@ static void audit_log_exit(struct audit_
context->names[i].gid,
MAJOR(context->names[i].rdev),
MINOR(context->names[i].rdev));
- if (context->names[i].ctx) {
- audit_log_format(ab, " obj=%s",
- context->names[i].ctx);
+ if (context->names[i].osid != 0) {
+ char *ctx = NULL;
+ int len;
+ if (selinux_ctxid_to_string(
+ context->names[i].osid, &ctx, &len)) {
+ audit_log_format(ab, " obj=%u",
+ context->names[i].osid);
+ call_panic = 1;
+ } else
+ audit_log_format(ab, " obj=%s", ctx);
+ kfree(ctx);
}
audit_log_end(ab);
+ if (call_panic)
+ audit_panic("error converting sid to string");
}
}
@@ -983,37 +991,8 @@ void audit_putname(const char *name)
void audit_inode_context(int idx, const struct inode *inode)
{
struct audit_context *context = current->audit_context;
- const char *suffix = security_inode_xattr_getsuffix();
- char *ctx = NULL;
- int len = 0;
-
- if (!suffix)
- goto ret;
-
- len = security_inode_getsecurity(inode, suffix, NULL, 0, 0);
- if (len == -EOPNOTSUPP)
- goto ret;
- if (len < 0)
- goto error_path;
-
- ctx = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!ctx)
- goto error_path;
- len = security_inode_getsecurity(inode, suffix, ctx, len, 0);
- if (len < 0)
- goto error_path;
-
- kfree(context->names[idx].ctx);
- context->names[idx].ctx = ctx;
- goto ret;
-
-error_path:
- if (ctx)
- kfree(ctx);
- audit_panic("error in audit_inode_context");
-ret:
- return;
+ selinux_get_inode_sid(inode, &context->names[idx].osid);
}
diff -urp linux-2.6.16.x86_64.orig/security/selinux/exports.c linux-2.6.16.x86_64/security/selinux/exports.c
--- linux-2.6.16.x86_64.orig/security/selinux/exports.c 2006-03-30 12:01:23.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.16.x86_64/security/selinux/exports.c 2006-03-30 12:05:30.000000000 -0500
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/selinux.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
#include "security.h"
#include "objsec.h"
@@ -26,3 +27,26 @@ void selinux_task_ctxid(struct task_stru
else
*ctxid = 0;
}
+
+int selinux_ctxid_to_string(u32 ctxid, char **ctx, u32 *ctxlen)
+{
+ if (selinux_enabled)
+ return security_sid_to_context(ctxid, ctx, ctxlen);
+ else {
+ *ctx = NULL;
+ *ctxlen = 0;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+void selinux_get_inode_sid(const struct inode *inode, u32 *sid)
+{
+ if (selinux_enabled) {
+ struct inode_security_struct *isec = inode->i_security;
+ *sid = isec->sid;
+ return;
+ }
+ *sid = 0;
+}
+
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