[PATCH 1/3] audit: Allow auditing of proc/self/cmdline value

William Roberts bill.c.roberts at gmail.com
Tue Nov 19 19:41:02 UTC 2013


Audit records will now contain a new field, cmdline.
This is the value that is stored in proc/self/cmdline,
and is useful for debugging when processes are being run
via VM's. A primary example of this is Android, in which
package names are set in this location, and thread names
are set via PR_SET_NAME. The other benefit is this
is not limited to 16 bytes as COMM historically has.

Change-Id: I9bf0928a8aa249d22ecd55fa9cd27325dd394eb1
Signed-off-by: William Roberts <wroberts at tresys.com>
---
 fs/proc/base.c          |    2 +-
 include/linux/proc_fs.h |    1 +
 kernel/auditsc.c        |   33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 2f198da..25b73d3 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ struct mm_struct *mm_for_maps(struct task_struct *task)
 	return mm_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ);
 }
 
-static int proc_pid_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, char * buffer)
+int proc_pid_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer)
 {
 	int res = 0;
 	unsigned int len;
diff --git a/include/linux/proc_fs.h b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
index 85c5073..d85ac14 100644
--- a/include/linux/proc_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ struct pid_namespace;
 
 extern int pid_ns_prepare_proc(struct pid_namespace *ns);
 extern void pid_ns_release_proc(struct pid_namespace *ns);
+extern int proc_pid_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer);
 
 /*
  * proc_tty.c
diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index 27ad9dd..45fd3d0 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
 #include <linux/capability.h>
 #include <linux/fs_struct.h>
+#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
 
 #include "audit.h"
 
@@ -1153,6 +1154,37 @@ error_path:
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(audit_log_task_context);
 
+static void audit_log_add_cmdline(struct audit_buffer *ab,
+				  struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	int len;
+	unsigned long page;
+	char *msg = "(null)";
+
+	audit_log_format(ab, " cmdline=");
+
+	/* Get the process cmdline */
+	page = __get_free_page(GFP_TEMPORARY);
+	if (!page) {
+		audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, msg);
+		return;
+	}
+	len = proc_pid_cmdline(tsk, (char *)page);
+	if (len <= 0) {
+		free_page(page);
+		audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, msg);
+		return;
+	}
+	/*
+	 * Ensure NULL terminated! Application could
+	 * could be using setproctitle(3).
+	 */
+	((char *)page)[len-1] = '\0';
+	msg = (char *)page;
+	audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, msg);
+	free_page(page);
+}
+
 static void audit_log_task_info(struct audit_buffer *ab, struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	char name[sizeof(tsk->comm)];
@@ -1179,6 +1211,7 @@ static void audit_log_task_info(struct audit_buffer *ab, struct task_struct *tsk
 		}
 		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	}
+	audit_log_add_cmdline(ab, tsk);
 	audit_log_task_context(ab);
 }
 
-- 
1.7.9.5




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