On 2018-05-18 12:34, Mimi Zohar wrote:
On Fri, 2018-05-18 at 11:56 -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 2018-05-18 10:39, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > On Fri, 2018-05-18 at 09:54 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > > On 05/18/2018 08:53 AM, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> >
> > [..]
> >
> > > >>>> If so, which ones? We could probably refactor the
current
> > > >>>> integrity_audit_message() and have ima_parse_rule() call
into it to get
> > > >>>> those fields as well. I suppose adding new fields to it
wouldn't be
> > > >>>> considered breaking user space?
> > > >>> Changing the order of existing fields or inserting fields
could break
> > > >>> stuff and is strongly discouraged without a good reason, but
appending
> > > >>> fields is usually the right way to add information.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> There are exceptions, and in this case, I'd pick the
"more standard" of
> > > >>> the formats for AUDIT_INTEGRITY_RULE (ima_audit_measurement?)
and stick
> > > >>> with that, abandoning the other format, renaming the less
standard
> > > >>> version of the record (ima_parse_rule?) and perhpas adopting
that
> > > >>> abandonned format for the new record type while using
> > > >>> current->audit_context.
> > > > This sounds right, other than "type=INTEGRITY_RULE" (1805)
for
> > > > ima_audit_measurement(). Could we rename type=1805 to be
> > >
> > > So do we want to change both? I thought that what
> > > ima_audit_measurement() produces looks ok but may not have a good name
> > > for the 'type'. Now in this case I would not want to 'break
user space'.
> > > The only change I was going to make was to what ima_parse_rule()
produces.
> >
> > The only change for now is separating the IMA policy rules from the
> > IMA-audit messages.
> >
> > Richard, when the containerid is appended to the IMA-audit messages,
> > would we make the audit type name change then?
>
> No, go ahead and make the change now. I'm expecting that the
> containerid record will just be another auxiliary record and should not
> affect you folks.
To summarize, we need to disambiguate the 1805, as both
ima_parse_rule() and ima_audit_measurement() are using the same number
with different formats. The main usage of 1805 that we are aware of
is ima_audit_measurement(). Yet the "type=" name for
ima_audit_measurement() should be INTEGRITY_IMA_AUDIT, not
INTEGRITY_RULE.
option 1: breaks both uses
1805 - INTEGRITY_IMA_AUDIT - ima_audit_measurement()
1806 - INTEGRITY_POLICY_RULE - ima_parse_rule()
option 2: breaks the most common usage
1805 - INTEGRITY_RULE - ima_parse_rule()
1806 - INTEGRITY_IMA_AUDIT - ima_audit_measurement()
option 3: leaves the most common usage with the wrong name, and breaks
the other less common usage
1805 - INTEGRITY_RULE - ima_audit_measurement()
1806 - INTEGRITY_POLICY_RULE - ima_parse_rule()
So option 3 is the best option?
Yes, I think so, but option 2 I would be willing to consider. I'd like
to get Paul and Steve's opinions on this.
Mimi
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