[PATCH] audit: do a quick exit when syscall number is invalid

[Paul Moore]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 11:22 PM CGEL <cgel.zte at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 11:06:12PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 9:48 PM CGEL <cgel.zte at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Sorry could anybody give a hand to solve this? It works well on x86_64 and arm64.
> > > I have no alpha environment and not familiar to this arch, much thanks!
> >
> > Regardless of if this is fixed, I'm not convinced this is something we
> > want to merge.  After all, a process executed a syscall and we should
> > process it like any other; just because it happens to be an
> > unrecognized syscall on a particular kernel build doesn't mean it
> > isn't security relevant (probing for specific syscall numbers may be a
> > useful attack fingerprint).
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> But syscall number less than 0 is even invalid for auditctl. So we
> will never hit this kind of audit rule. And invalid syscall number
> will always cause failure early in syscall handle.
>
> sh-4.2# auditctl -a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S -1
> Syscall name unknown: -1

You can add an audit filter without explicitly specifying a syscall:

% auditctl -a exit,always -F auid=1000
% auditctl -l
-a always,exit -S all -F auid=1000

-- 
paul-moore.com