[RFC PATCH v3 3/5] lsm: add support for auditing kdbus service names

[Stephen Smalley]

On 10/09/2015 12:25 PM, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Friday, October 09, 2015 10:57:44 AM Stephen Smalley wrote:
>> On 10/07/2015 07:08 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
>>> The kdbus service names will be recorded using 'service', similar to
>>> the existing dbus audit records.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore at redhat.com>
>>>
>>> ---
>>> ChangeLog:
>>> - v3
>>>
>>>    * Ported to the 4.3-rc4 based kdbus tree
>>>
>>> - v2
>>>
>>>    * Initial draft
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>    include/linux/lsm_audit.h |    2 ++
>>>    security/lsm_audit.c      |    4 ++++
>>>    2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_audit.h b/include/linux/lsm_audit.h
>>> index ffb9c9d..d6a656f 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/lsm_audit.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/lsm_audit.h
>>> @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ struct common_audit_data {
>>>
>>>    #define LSM_AUDIT_DATA_INODE	9
>>>    #define LSM_AUDIT_DATA_DENTRY	10
>>>    #define LSM_AUDIT_DATA_IOCTL_OP	11
>>>
>>> +#define LSM_AUDIT_DATA_KDBUS	12
>>>
>>>    	union 	{
>>>    	
>>>    		struct path path;
>>>    		struct dentry *dentry;
>>>
>>> @@ -75,6 +76,7 @@ struct common_audit_data {
>>>
>>>    #endif
>>>
>>>    		char *kmod_name;
>>>    		struct lsm_ioctlop_audit *op;
>>>
>>> +		const char *kdbus_name;
>>>
>>>    	} u;
>>>    	/* this union contains LSM specific data */
>>>    	union {
>>>
>>> diff --git a/security/lsm_audit.c b/security/lsm_audit.c
>>> index cccbf30..0a3dc1b 100644
>>> --- a/security/lsm_audit.c
>>> +++ b/security/lsm_audit.c
>>> @@ -397,6 +397,10 @@ static void dump_common_audit_data(struct
>>> audit_buffer *ab,>
>>>    		audit_log_format(ab, " kmod=");
>>>    		audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, a->u.kmod_name);
>>>    		break;
>>>
>>> +	case LSM_AUDIT_DATA_KDBUS:
>>> +		audit_log_format(ab, " service=");
>>
>> Not a major issue to me, but just wondering if this needs to be further
>> qualified to indicate it is a kdbus service.  service= is rather generic.
>
>>From the audit perspective, its fine as service. Too many names that mean the
> same thing causes string lookup tables to get big. Service is what dbus is
> currently using. So, it makes sense to re-use the field name. If the selinux
> tooling wants to know an AVC originated from kdbus activity, then maybe
> another name=value should be added.

Ok, never mind then - just leave it as is.