[PATCH V4 0/4] audit by executable name

Eric Paris eparis at redhat.com
Mon Sep 8 19:25:33 UTC 2014


On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 14:53 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> 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?

I tested it when I wrote it.  But don't know about this patch series.
Is that worth anything?   :)

> 
> 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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