[PATCH ghak25 v6] audit: add subj creds to NETFILTER_CFG record to cover async unregister

Richard Guy Briggs rgb at redhat.com
Wed May 20 18:59:22 UTC 2020


On 2020-05-20 14:51, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 20, 2020 2:40:45 PM EDT Paul Moore wrote:
> > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 12:55 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On 2020-05-20 12:51, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > > > Some table unregister actions seem to be initiated by the kernel to
> > > > garbage collect unused tables that are not initiated by any userspace
> > > > actions.  It was found to be necessary to add the subject credentials
> > > > to cover this case to reveal the source of these actions.  A sample
> > > > record:
> > > > 
> > > > The uid, auid, tty, ses and exe fields have not been included since
> > > > they
> > > > are in the SYSCALL record and contain nothing useful in the non-user
> > > > context.
> > > > 
> > > >   type=NETFILTER_CFG msg=audit(2020-03-11 21:25:21.491:269) : table=nat
> > > >   family=bridge entries=0 op=unregister pid=153
> > > >   subj=system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0 comm=kworker/u4:2
> >
> > FWIW, that record looks good.
> 
> It's severely broken
> 
> cat log.file
> type=NETFILTER_CFG msg=audit(2020-03-11 21:25:21.491:269) : table=nat 
> family=bridge entries=0 op=unregister pid=153 
> subj=system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0 comm=kworker/u4:2
> 
> ausearch -if log.file --format text
> At 19:33:40 12/31/1969  did-unknown 
> 
> ausearch -if log.file --format csv
> NODE,EVENT,DATE,TIME,SERIAL_NUM,EVENT_KIND,SESSION,SUBJ_PRIME,SUBJ_SEC,SUBJ_KIND,ACTION,RESULT,OBJ_PRIME,OBJ_SEC,OBJ_KIND,HOW
> error normalizing NETFILTER_CFG
> ,NETFILTER_CFG,12/31/1969,19:33:40,0,,,,,,,,,,
> 
> This is unusable. This is why the bug was filed in the first place.

Have you applied this patchset?
	https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2020-May/msg00072.html

AUDIT_EVENT_LISTENER is also broken without this first patch.

> -Steve
> 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com>
> > > 
> > > Self-NACK.  I forgot to remove cred and tty declarations.

- RGB

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