[PATCH 3/6 RFC] netfilter: audit only on xtables and ebtables syscall rule or standalone
Pablo Neira Ayuso
pablo at netfilter.org
Wed May 24 17:36:06 UTC 2017
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 01:21:49PM -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> There were syscall events unsolicited by any audit rule caused by a missing
> !audit_dummy_context() check before creating an
> iptables/ip6tables/arptables/ebtables NETFILTER_CFG record. Check
> !audit_dummy_context() before creating the NETFILTER_CFG record.
>
> The vast majority of observed unaccompanied records are caused by the fedora
> default rule: "-a never,task" and the occasional early startup one is I believe
> caused by the iptables filter table module hard linked into the kernel rather
> than a loadable module. The !audit_dummy_context() check above should avoid
> them. Audit only when there is an existing syscall audit rule, otherwise issue
> a standalone record only on table modification rather than empty table
> creation.
>
> Add subject attributes to the new standalone NETFILTER_CFGSOLO record using
> a newly exported audit_log_task().
This new NETFILTER_CFGSOLO looks like audit infra is missing some way
to export a revision / context to userspace? It's duplicating quite a
bit of the code from what I can see in this patch.
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/audit.h b/include/uapi/linux/audit.h
> index 0714a66..8bee3f5 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/audit.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/audit.h
> @@ -112,6 +112,7 @@
> #define AUDIT_FEATURE_CHANGE 1328 /* audit log listing feature changes */
> #define AUDIT_REPLACE 1329 /* Replace auditd if this packet unanswerd */
> #define AUDIT_KERN_MODULE 1330 /* Kernel Module events */
> +#define AUDIT_NETFILTER_CFGSOLO 1331 /* Netfilter chain modifications standalone */
>
> #define AUDIT_AVC 1400 /* SE Linux avc denial or grant */
> #define AUDIT_SELINUX_ERR 1401 /* Internal SE Linux Errors */
> diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
> index b2dcbe6..8ac38e6 100644
> --- a/kernel/auditsc.c
> +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
> @@ -2383,7 +2383,7 @@ void __audit_log_kern_module(char *name)
> context->type = AUDIT_KERN_MODULE;
> }
>
> -static void audit_log_task(struct audit_buffer *ab)
> +void audit_log_task(struct audit_buffer *ab)
> {
> kuid_t auid, uid;
> kgid_t gid;
> @@ -2404,6 +2404,7 @@ static void audit_log_task(struct audit_buffer *ab)
> audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, get_task_comm(comm, current));
> audit_log_d_path_exe(ab, current->mm);
> }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(audit_log_task);
>
> /**
> * audit_core_dumps - record information about processes that end abnormally
> diff --git a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
> index 13d7fe2..743f9e6 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
> @@ -1071,12 +1071,25 @@ static int do_replace_finish(struct net *net, struct ebt_replace *repl,
> if (audit_enabled) {
> struct audit_buffer *ab;
>
> - ab = audit_log_start(current->audit_context, GFP_KERNEL,
> - AUDIT_NETFILTER_CFG);
> - if (ab) {
> - audit_log_format(ab, "table=%s family=%u entries=%u",
> - repl->name, AF_BRIDGE, repl->nentries);
> - audit_log_end(ab);
> + if(!audit_dummy_context()) {
> + ab = audit_log_start(current->audit_context, GFP_KERNEL,
> + AUDIT_NETFILTER_CFG);
> + if (ab) {
> + audit_log_format(ab, "family=%u table=%s entries=%u",
> + AF_BRIDGE, repl->name,
> + repl->nentries);
> + audit_log_end(ab);
> + }
> + } else if(repl->nentries) {
> + ab = audit_log_start(NULL, GFP_KERNEL,
> + AUDIT_NETFILTER_CFGSOLO);
> + if (ab) {
> + audit_log_task(ab);
> + audit_log_format(ab, " family=%u table=%s entries=%u",
> + AF_BRIDGE, repl->name,
> + repl->nentries);
> + audit_log_end(ab);
> + }
If you have no other way, probably it is a good idea to wrap this code
around a function, eg. ebt_audit_replace_finish() ?
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