[PATCH 1/2] security: lsm_audit: add ioctl specific auditing

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Wed May 20 20:39:14 UTC 2015


On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 04:22:24 PM Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On 05/20/2015 04:21 PM, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 04:06:55 PM Paul Moore wrote:
> >> On Thursday, April 09, 2015 02:49:31 PM Jeff Vander Stoep wrote:
> >>> Add information about ioctl calls to the LSM audit data. Log the
> >>> file path and command number.
> >>> 
> >>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv at google.com>
> >>> ---
> >>> 
> >>>  include/linux/lsm_audit.h |  7 +++++++
> >>>  security/lsm_audit.c      | 15 +++++++++++++++
> >>>  2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)
> >> 
> >> No real comment other than we should include the linux-audit list on this
> >> patch (added to the To/CC line).
> >> 
> >> From an audit perspective the only new field would be the ioctl number
> >> which is represented by the "ioctlcmd" name.  Does anyone in the audit
> >> space have any strong feelings on this one way or another?
> > 
> > Isn't that in arg1 already? I know I wrote interpretations for it.
> 
> Only with syscall audit, often not enabled.  This is to capture the
> information on AVC denials for an extension to SELinux to support ioctl
> whitelisting.

OK. ioctlcmd is fine. I'll add it to the lookup table to interpret the value.

-Steve




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