[PATCH V4 0/4] audit by executable name

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Mon Sep 8 18:53:22 UTC 2014


Hell Richard,

On Sunday, August 24, 2014 06:34:04 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> This is a part of Peter Moody, my and Eric Paris' work to implement
> audit by executable name.

So, what's the status on this? Is it scheduled for the next upstream kernel? 
This is a feature that's been missing for a long time. Many people will find 
this useful.

Also, has anyone beside Richard been testing this?

Thanks,
-Steve

> Please see the accompanying userspace patch:
> 	https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-May/msg00019.html
> The userspace interface is not expected to change appreciably unless
> something important has been overlooked.  Setting and deleting rules works
> as expected.
> 
> If the path does not exist at rule creation time, it will be re-evaluated
> every time there is a change to the parent directory at which point the
> change in device and inode will be noted.
> 
> 
> Here's a test run:
> 
> # /usr/local/sbin/auditctl -a always,exit -F dir=/tmp -F exe=/bin/touch -F
> key=touch_tmp # /usr/local/sbin/ausearch --start recent -k touch_tmp
> time->Mon Jun 30 14:15:06 2014
> type=CONFIG_CHANGE msg=audit(1404152106.683:149): auid=0 ses=1
> subj=unconfined_u :unconfined_r:auditctl_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 op="add rule"
> key="touch_tmp" list=4 res =1
> 
> # /usr/local/sbin/auditctl -l
> -a always,exit -S all -F dir=/tmp -F exe=/bin/touch -F key=touch_tmp
> 
> # touch /tmp/test
> 
> # /usr/local/sbin/ausearch --start recent -k touch_tmp
> time->Wed Jul  2 12:18:47 2014
> type=UNKNOWN[1327] msg=audit(1404317927.319:132):
> proctitle=746F756368002F746D702F74657374 type=PATH
> msg=audit(1404317927.319:132): item=1 name="/tmp/test" inode=25997
> dev=00:20 mode=0100644 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00
> obj=unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0 nametype=CREATE type=PATH
> msg=audit(1404317927.319:132): item=0 name="/tmp/" inode=11144 dev=00:20
> mode=041777 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0
> nametype=PARENT type=CWD msg=audit(1404317927.319:132):  cwd="/root"
> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1404317927.319:132): arch=c000003e syscall=2
> success=yes exit=3 a0=7ffffa403dd5 a1=941 a2=1b6 a3=34b65b2c6c items=2
> ppid=4321 pid=6436 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0
> fsgid=0 tty=ttyS0 ses=1 comm="touch" exe="/usr/bin/touch"
> subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key="touch_tmp"
> 
> 
> Revision history:
> v4: Re-order and squash down fixups
>     Fix audit_dup_exe() to copy pathname string before calling
> audit_alloc_mark().
> 
> v3: Rationalize and rename some function names and clean up get/put and free
> code. Rename several "watch" references to "mark".
>     Rename audit_remove_rule() to audit_remove_mark_rule().
>     Let audit_free_rule() take care of calling audit_remove_mark().
>     Put audit_alloc_mark() arguments in same order as watch, tree and inode.
> Move the access to the entry for audit_match_signal() to the beginning of
> the function in case the entry found is the same one passed in. This will
> enable it to be used by audit_remove_mark_rule().
>     https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-July/msg00000.html
> 
> v2: Misguided attempt to add in audit_exe similar to watches
>     https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-June/msg00066.html
> 
> v1.5: eparis' switch to fsnotify
>     https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-May/msg00046.html
>     https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-May/msg00066.html
> 
> v1: Change to path interface instead of inode
>     https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-May/msg00017.html
> 
> v0: Peter Moodie's original patches
>     https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2012-August/msg00033.html
> 
> 
> Next step:
> Get full-path notify working.
> 
> 
> Eric Paris (3):
>   audit: implement audit by executable
>   audit: clean simple fsnotify implementation
>   audit: convert audit_exe to audit_fsnotify
> 
> Richard Guy Briggs (1):
>   audit: avoid double copying the audit_exe path string
> 
>  include/linux/audit.h      |    1 +
>  include/uapi/linux/audit.h |    2 +
>  kernel/Makefile            |    2 +-
>  kernel/audit.h             |   39 +++++++
>  kernel/audit_exe.c         |   49 +++++++++
>  kernel/audit_fsnotify.c    |  237
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/auditfilter.c       |  
> 51 +++++++++-
>  kernel/auditsc.c           |   16 +++
>  8 files changed, 394 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 kernel/audit_exe.c
>  create mode 100644 kernel/audit_fsnotify.c




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