[RFC][PATCH 3/3] audit: Audit proc cmdline value
Paul Davies C
pauldaviesc at gmail.com
Wed Jan 15 12:40:19 UTC 2014
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:00 PM, William Roberts <bill.c.roberts at gmail.com>wrote:
> During an audit event, cache and print the value of the process's
> cmdline value (proc/<pid>/cmdline). This is useful in situations
> where processes are started via fork'd virtual machines where the
> comm field is incorrect. Often times, setting the comm field still
> is insufficient as the comm width is not very wide and most
> virtual machine "package names" do not fit. Also, during execution,
> many threads have their comm field set as well. By tying it back to
> the global cmdline value for the process, audit records will be more
> complete in systems with these properties. An example of where this
> is useful and applicable is in the realm of Android. With Android,
> their is no fork/exec for VM instances. The bare, preloaded Dalvik
> VM listens for a fork and specialize request. When this request comes
> in, the VM forks, and the loads the specific application (specializing).
> This was done to take advantage of COW and to not require a load of
> basic packages by the VM on very app spawn. When this spawn occurs,
> the package name is set via setproctitle() and shows up in procfs.
> Many of these package names are longer then 16 bytes, the historical
> width of task->comm. Having the cmdline in the audit records will
> couple the application back to the record directly. Also, on my
> Debian development box, some audit records were more useful then
> what was printed under comm.
>
>
Another important advantage of having the cmdline in the audit log is that
it gives us an idea about the switches , that may have been used along with
a command.
Also consider that we ran *bash example.sh* , if it were to create an audit
event, then audit log will have *comm="bash"* and *exe="/bin/bash"*. If we
where to add cmdline in audit log then it will have
cmdline="bashexample.sh", which is obviously more helpful.
> The cached cmdline is tied to the life-cycle of the audit_context
> structure and is built on demand.
>
> Example denial prior to patch (Ubuntu):
> CALL msg=audit(1387828084.070:361): arch=c000003e syscall=82 success=yes
> exit=0 a0=4184bf a1=418547 a2=0 a3=0 items=0 ppid=1 pid=1329
> auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0
> ses=4294967295 tty=(none) comm="console-kit-dae"
> exe="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon"
> subj=system_u:system_r:consolekit_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 key=(null)
>
> After Patches (Ubuntu):
> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1387828084.070:361): arch=c000003e syscall=82
> success=yes exit=0 a0=4184bf a1=418547 a2=0 a3=0 items=0 ppid=1 pid=1329
> auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0
> ses=4294967295 tty=(none) comm="console-kit-dae"
> exe="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon"
> subj=system_u:system_r:consolekit_t:s0-s0:c0.c255
> cmdline="/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper" key=(null)
>
> Example denial prior to patch (Android):
> type=1300 msg=audit(248323.940:247): arch=40000028 syscall=54 per=840000
> success=yes exit=0 a0=39 a1=540b a2=2 a3=750eecec items=0 ppid=224 pid=1858
> auid=4294967295 uid=1002 gid=1002 euid=1002 suid=1002 fsuid=1002 egid=1002
> sgid=1002 fsgid=1002 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="bt_hc_worker"
> exe="/system/bin/app_process" subj=u:r:bluetooth:s0 key=(null)
>
> After Patches (Android):
> type=1300 msg=audit(248323.940:247): arch=40000028 syscall=54 per=840000
> success=yes exit=0 a0=39 a1=540b a2=2 a3=750eecec items=0 ppid=224 pid=1858
> auid=4294967295 uid=1002 gid=1002 euid=1002 suid=1002 fsuid=1002 egid=1002
> sgid=1002 fsgid=1002 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="bt_hc_worker"
> exe="/system/bin/app_process" cmdline="com.android.bluetooth"
> subj=u:r:bluetooth:s0 key=(null)
>
> Signed-off-by: William Roberts <wroberts at tresys.com>
> ---
> kernel/audit.h | 1 +
> kernel/auditsc.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/audit.h b/kernel/audit.h
> index b779642..bd6211f 100644
> --- a/kernel/audit.h
> +++ b/kernel/audit.h
> @@ -202,6 +202,7 @@ struct audit_context {
> } execve;
> };
> int fds[2];
> + char *cmdline;
>
> #if AUDIT_DEBUG
> int put_count;
> diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
> index 90594c9..a4c2003 100644
> --- a/kernel/auditsc.c
> +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
> @@ -842,6 +842,12 @@ static inline struct audit_context
> *audit_get_context(struct task_struct *tsk,
> return context;
> }
>
> +static inline void audit_cmdline_free(struct audit_context *context)
> +{
> + kfree(context->cmdline);
> + context->cmdline = NULL;
> +}
> +
> static inline void audit_free_names(struct audit_context *context)
> {
> struct audit_names *n, *next;
> @@ -955,6 +961,7 @@ static inline void audit_free_context(struct
> audit_context *context)
> audit_free_aux(context);
> kfree(context->filterkey);
> kfree(context->sockaddr);
> + audit_cmdline_free(context);
> kfree(context);
> }
>
> @@ -1271,6 +1278,30 @@ static void show_special(struct audit_context
> *context, int *call_panic)
> audit_log_end(ab);
> }
>
> +static void audit_log_cmdline(struct audit_buffer *ab, struct task_struct
> *tsk,
> + struct audit_context *context)
> +{
> + int res;
> + char *buf;
> + char *msg = "(null)";
> + audit_log_format(ab, " cmdline=");
> +
> + /* Not cached */
> + if (!context->cmdline) {
> + buf = kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!buf)
> + goto out;
> + res = get_cmdline(tsk, buf, PATH_MAX);
> + /* Ensure NULL terminated */
> + if (buf[res-1] != '\0')
> + buf[res-1] = '\0';
> + context->cmdline = buf;
> + }
> + msg = context->cmdline;
> +out:
> + audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, msg);
> +}
> +
> static void audit_log_exit(struct audit_context *context, struct
> task_struct *tsk)
> {
> int i, call_panic = 0;
> @@ -1302,6 +1333,7 @@ static void audit_log_exit(struct audit_context
> *context, struct task_struct *ts
> context->name_count);
>
> audit_log_task_info(ab, tsk);
> + audit_log_cmdline(ab, tsk, context);
> audit_log_key(ab, context->filterkey);
> audit_log_end(ab);
>
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
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*Regards,*
*Paul Davies C*
vivafoss.blogspot.com
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