[PATCH ALT4 V3 2/2] audit: filter PATH records keyed on filesystem magic

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Thu Sep 7 22:36:32 UTC 2017


On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 7:03 AM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com> wrote:
> Tracefs or debugfs were causing hundreds to thousands of PATH records to
> be associated with the init_module and finit_module SYSCALL records on a
> few modules when the following rule was in place for startup:
>         -a always,exit -F arch=x86_64 -S init_module -F key=mod-load
>
> Provide a method to ignore these large number of PATH records from
> overwhelming the logs if they are not of interest.  Introduce a new
> filter list "AUDIT_FILTER_FS", with a new field type AUDIT_FSTYPE,
> which keys off the filesystem 4-octet hexadecimal magic identifier to
> filter specific filesystem PATH records.
>
> An example rule would look like:
>         -a never,filesystem -F fstype=0x74726163 -F key=ignore_tracefs
>         -a never,filesystem -F fstype=0x64626720 -F key=ignore_debugfs
>
> Arguably the better way to address this issue is to disable tracefs and
> debugfs on boot from production systems.
>
> See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/16
> See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/issues/8
> Test case: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-testsuite/issues/42
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com>
>
> ---
> v3: rebase
> v2: convert AUDIT_FILTER_PATH to AUDIT_FILTER_FS
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/audit.h |    8 ++++++--
>  kernel/auditfilter.c       |   39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  kernel/auditsc.c           |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Both this patch and 1/2 look okay, but I'm not going to merge either
until after the merge window closes.

Steve, I assume you are still happy with the kernel/userspace
interface for this?

> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/audit.h b/include/uapi/linux/audit.h
> index 0714a66..be71134 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/audit.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/audit.h
> @@ -155,8 +155,9 @@
>  #define AUDIT_FILTER_WATCH     0x03    /* Apply rule to file system watches */
>  #define AUDIT_FILTER_EXIT      0x04    /* Apply rule at syscall exit */
>  #define AUDIT_FILTER_TYPE      0x05    /* Apply rule at audit_log_start */
> +#define AUDIT_FILTER_FS                0x06    /* Apply rule at __audit_inode_child */
>
> -#define AUDIT_NR_FILTERS       6
> +#define AUDIT_NR_FILTERS       7
>
>  #define AUDIT_FILTER_PREPEND   0x10    /* Prepend to front of list */
>
> @@ -256,6 +257,7 @@
>  #define AUDIT_OBJ_LEV_HIGH     23
>  #define AUDIT_LOGINUID_SET     24
>  #define AUDIT_SESSIONID        25      /* Session ID */
> +#define AUDIT_FSTYPE   26      /* FileSystem Type */
>
>                                 /* These are ONLY useful when checking
>                                  * at syscall exit time (AUDIT_AT_EXIT). */
> @@ -335,13 +337,15 @@ enum {
>  #define AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_EXCLUDE_EXTEND    0x00000008
>  #define AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_SESSIONID_FILTER  0x00000010
>  #define AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_LOST_RESET                0x00000020
> +#define AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_FILTER_FS         0x00000040
>
>  #define AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_ALL (AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_BACKLOG_LIMIT | \
>                                   AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME | \
>                                   AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_EXECUTABLE_PATH | \
>                                   AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_EXCLUDE_EXTEND | \
>                                   AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_SESSIONID_FILTER | \
> -                                 AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_LOST_RESET)
> +                                 AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_LOST_RESET | \
> +                                 AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_FILTER_FS)
>
>  /* deprecated: AUDIT_VERSION_* */
>  #define AUDIT_VERSION_LATEST           AUDIT_FEATURE_BITMAP_ALL
> diff --git a/kernel/auditfilter.c b/kernel/auditfilter.c
> index 0b0aa58..4a1758a 100644
> --- a/kernel/auditfilter.c
> +++ b/kernel/auditfilter.c
> @@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ struct list_head audit_filter_list[AUDIT_NR_FILTERS] = {
>         LIST_HEAD_INIT(audit_filter_list[3]),
>         LIST_HEAD_INIT(audit_filter_list[4]),
>         LIST_HEAD_INIT(audit_filter_list[5]),
> -#if AUDIT_NR_FILTERS != 6
> +       LIST_HEAD_INIT(audit_filter_list[6]),
> +#if AUDIT_NR_FILTERS != 7
>  #error Fix audit_filter_list initialiser
>  #endif
>  };
> @@ -67,6 +68,7 @@ struct list_head audit_filter_list[AUDIT_NR_FILTERS] = {
>         LIST_HEAD_INIT(audit_rules_list[3]),
>         LIST_HEAD_INIT(audit_rules_list[4]),
>         LIST_HEAD_INIT(audit_rules_list[5]),
> +       LIST_HEAD_INIT(audit_rules_list[6]),
>  };
>
>  DEFINE_MUTEX(audit_filter_mutex);
> @@ -263,6 +265,7 @@ static int audit_match_signal(struct audit_entry *entry)
>  #endif
>         case AUDIT_FILTER_USER:
>         case AUDIT_FILTER_TYPE:
> +       case AUDIT_FILTER_FS:
>                 ;
>         }
>         if (unlikely(rule->action == AUDIT_POSSIBLE)) {
> @@ -338,6 +341,21 @@ static int audit_field_valid(struct audit_entry *entry, struct audit_field *f)
>                     entry->rule.listnr != AUDIT_FILTER_USER)
>                         return -EINVAL;
>                 break;
> +       case AUDIT_FSTYPE:
> +               if (entry->rule.listnr != AUDIT_FILTER_FS)
> +                       return -EINVAL;
> +               break;
> +       }
> +
> +       switch(entry->rule.listnr) {
> +       case AUDIT_FILTER_FS:
> +               switch(f->type) {
> +               case AUDIT_FSTYPE:
> +               case AUDIT_FILTERKEY:
> +                       break;
> +               default:
> +                       return -EINVAL;
> +               }
>         }
>
>         switch(f->type) {
> @@ -391,6 +409,7 @@ static int audit_field_valid(struct audit_entry *entry, struct audit_field *f)
>                         return -EINVAL;
>         /* FALL THROUGH */
>         case AUDIT_ARCH:
> +       case AUDIT_FSTYPE:
>                 if (f->op != Audit_not_equal && f->op != Audit_equal)
>                         return -EINVAL;
>                 break;
> @@ -910,10 +929,13 @@ static inline int audit_add_rule(struct audit_entry *entry)
>  #ifdef CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL
>         int dont_count = 0;
>
> -       /* If either of these, don't count towards total */
> -       if (entry->rule.listnr == AUDIT_FILTER_USER ||
> -               entry->rule.listnr == AUDIT_FILTER_TYPE)
> +       /* If any of these, don't count towards total */
> +       switch(entry->rule.listnr) {
> +       case AUDIT_FILTER_USER:
> +       case AUDIT_FILTER_TYPE:
> +       case AUDIT_FILTER_FS:
>                 dont_count = 1;
> +       }
>  #endif
>
>         mutex_lock(&audit_filter_mutex);
> @@ -989,10 +1011,13 @@ int audit_del_rule(struct audit_entry *entry)
>  #ifdef CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL
>         int dont_count = 0;
>
> -       /* If either of these, don't count towards total */
> -       if (entry->rule.listnr == AUDIT_FILTER_USER ||
> -               entry->rule.listnr == AUDIT_FILTER_TYPE)
> +       /* If any of these, don't count towards total */
> +       switch(entry->rule.listnr) {
> +       case AUDIT_FILTER_USER:
> +       case AUDIT_FILTER_TYPE:
> +       case AUDIT_FILTER_FS:
>                 dont_count = 1;
> +       }
>  #endif
>
>         mutex_lock(&audit_filter_mutex);
> diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
> index 11848df..ce6cbda 100644
> --- a/kernel/auditsc.c
> +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
> @@ -1871,10 +1871,33 @@ void __audit_inode_child(struct inode *parent,
>         struct inode *inode = d_backing_inode(dentry);
>         const char *dname = dentry->d_name.name;
>         struct audit_names *n, *found_parent = NULL, *found_child = NULL;
> +       struct audit_entry *e;
> +       struct list_head *list = &audit_filter_list[AUDIT_FILTER_FS];
> +       int i;
>
>         if (!context->in_syscall)
>                 return;
>
> +        rcu_read_lock();
> +       if (!list_empty(list)) {
> +               list_for_each_entry_rcu(e, list, list) {
> +                       for (i = 0; i < e->rule.field_count; i++) {
> +                               struct audit_field *f = &e->rule.fields[i];
> +
> +                               if (f->type == AUDIT_FSTYPE) {
> +                                       if (audit_comparator(parent->i_sb->s_magic,
> +                                           f->op, f->val)) {
> +                                               if (e->rule.action == AUDIT_NEVER) {
> +                                                       rcu_read_unlock();
> +                                                       return;
> +                                               }
> +                                       }
> +                               }
> +                       }
> +               }
> +       }
> +        rcu_read_unlock();
> +
>         if (inode)
>                 handle_one(inode);
>
> --
> 1.7.1
>
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