January 2015 - Linux-audit - Linux-Audit List Archives

How do I get complete list of audit event types

by Satish Chandra Kilaru

Hi I want to understand the logs in /var/log/audit/audit.log. Where can I get complete list of audit event types and what they mean? --Satish Please Donate to www.wikipedia.org

7 years, 1 month

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[PATCH 1/1] Added exe field to audit core dump signal log

by Paul Davies C

Currently when the coredump signals are logged by the audit system , the actual path to the executable is not logged. Without details of exe , the system admin may not have an exact idea on what program failed. This patch changes the audit_log_task() so that the path to the exe is also logged. Signed-off-by: Paul Davies C <pauldaviesc(a)gmail.com> --- kernel/auditsc.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c index 9845cb3..988de72 100644 --- a/kernel/auditsc.c +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c @@ -2353,6 +2353,7 @@ static void audit_log_task(struct audit_buffer *ab) kuid_t auid, uid; kgid_t gid; unsigned int sessionid; + struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm; auid = audit_get_loginuid(current); sessionid = audit_get_sessionid(current); @@ -2366,6 +2367,12 @@ static void audit_log_task(struct audit_buffer *ab) audit_log_task_context(ab); audit_log_format(ab, " pid=%d comm=", current->pid); audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, current->comm); + if (mm) { + down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + if (mm->exe_file) + audit_log_d_path(ab, " exe=", &mm->exe_file->f_path); + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + } } static void audit_log_abend(struct audit_buffer *ab, char *reason, long signr) -- 1.7.9.5

9 years, 5 months

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Linux audit performance impact

by Viswanath, Logeswari P (MCOU OSTL)

Hi Steve, I am Logeswari working for HP. We want to know audit performance impact on RHEL and Suse linux to help us evaluate linux audit as data source for our host based IDS. When we ran our own performance test with a test audispd plugin, we found if a system can perform 200000 open/close system calls per second without auditing, system can perform only 3000 open/close system calls auditing is enabled for open/close system call which is a HUGE impact on the system performance. It would be great if anyone can help us answering the following questions. 1) Is this performance impact expected? If yes, what is the reason behind it and can we fix it? 2) Have anyone done any benchmarking for performance impact? If yes, can you please share the numbers and also the steps/programs used the run the same. 3) Help us validating the performance test we have done in our test setup using the steps mentioned along with the results attached. Attached test program (loader.c) to invoke open and close system calls. Attached idskerndsp is the audispd plugin program. We used time command to determine how much time the system took to complete 50000 open/close system calls without (results attached Without-auditing) and with auditing enabled on the system (With-auditing-NOLOG-audispd-plugin and With-auditing-RAW) System details: 1 CPU machine OS Version RHEL 6.5 Kernel Version uname -r 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 Note: auditd was occupying 35% of CPU and was sleeping for most of the time whereas kauditd was occupying 20% of the CPU. Thanks & Regards, Logeswari.

9 years, 10 months

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[PATCH 1/2] audit: don't lose set wait time on first successful call to audit_log_start()

by Richard Guy Briggs

Copy the set wait time to a working value to avoid losing the set value if the queue overflows. Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb(a)redhat.com> --- kernel/audit.c | 7 ++++--- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c index 53bb39b..b333f03 100644 --- a/kernel/audit.c +++ b/kernel/audit.c @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ static u32 audit_rate_limit; * When set to zero, this means unlimited. */ static u32 audit_backlog_limit = 64; #define AUDIT_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME (60 * HZ) +static u32 audit_backlog_wait_time_master = AUDIT_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME; static u32 audit_backlog_wait_time = AUDIT_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME; static u32 audit_backlog_wait_overflow = 0; @@ -338,7 +339,7 @@ static int audit_set_backlog_limit(u32 limit) static int audit_set_backlog_wait_time(u32 timeout) { return audit_do_config_change("audit_backlog_wait_time", - &audit_backlog_wait_time, timeout); + &audit_backlog_wait_time_master, timeout); } static int audit_set_enabled(u32 state) @@ -843,7 +844,7 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh) s.lost = atomic_read(&audit_lost); s.backlog = skb_queue_len(&audit_skb_queue); s.version = AUDIT_VERSION_LATEST; - s.backlog_wait_time = audit_backlog_wait_time; + s.backlog_wait_time = audit_backlog_wait_time_master; audit_send_reply(skb, seq, AUDIT_GET, 0, 0, &s, sizeof(s)); break; } @@ -1394,7 +1395,7 @@ struct audit_buffer *audit_log_start(struct audit_context *ctx, gfp_t gfp_mask, return NULL; } - audit_backlog_wait_time = AUDIT_BACKLOG_WAIT_TIME; + audit_backlog_wait_time = audit_backlog_wait_time_master; ab = audit_buffer_alloc(ctx, gfp_mask, type); if (!ab) { -- 1.7.1

9 years, 11 months

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[RFC PATCH v4] audit: move the tree pruning to a dedicated thread

by Imre Palik

From: "Palik, Imre" <imrep(a)amazon.de> When file auditing is enabled, during a low memory situation, a memory allocation with __GFP_FS can lead to pruning the inode cache. Which can, in turn lead to audit_tree_freeing_mark() being called. This can call audit_schedule_prune(), that tries to fork a pruning thread, and waits until the thread is created. But forking needs memory, and the memory allocations there are done with __GFP_FS. So we are waiting merrily for some __GFP_FS memory allocations to complete, while holding some filesystem locks. This can take a while ... This patch creates a single thread for pruning the tree from audit_add_tree_rule(), and thus avoids the deadlock that the on-demand thread creation can cause. Reported-by: Matt Wilson <msw(a)amazon.com> Cc: Matt Wilson <msw(a)amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Imre Palik <imrep(a)amazon.de> --- kernel/audit_tree.c | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/audit_tree.c b/kernel/audit_tree.c index 2e0c974..71fd1f2 100644 --- a/kernel/audit_tree.c +++ b/kernel/audit_tree.c @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ struct audit_chunk { static LIST_HEAD(tree_list); static LIST_HEAD(prune_list); +static struct task_struct *prune_thread; /* * One struct chunk is attached to each inode of interest. @@ -651,6 +652,57 @@ static int tag_mount(struct vfsmount *mnt, void *arg) return tag_chunk(mnt->mnt_root->d_inode, arg); } +/* + * That gets run when evict_chunk() ends up needing to kill audit_tree. + * Runs from a separate thread. + */ +static int prune_tree_thread(void *unused) +{ + for (;;) { + set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); + if (list_empty(&prune_list)) + schedule(); + __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); + + mutex_lock(&audit_cmd_mutex); + mutex_lock(&audit_filter_mutex); + + while (!list_empty(&prune_list)) { + struct audit_tree *victim; + + victim = list_entry(prune_list.next, + struct audit_tree, list); + list_del_init(&victim->list); + + mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); + + prune_one(victim); + + mutex_lock(&audit_filter_mutex); + } + + mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); + mutex_unlock(&audit_cmd_mutex); + } + return 0; +} + +static int audit_launch_prune(void) +{ + if (prune_thread) + return 0; + prune_thread = kthread_create(prune_tree_thread, NULL, + "audit_prune_tree"); + if (IS_ERR(prune_thread)) { + pr_err("cannot start thread audit_prune_tree"); + prune_thread = NULL; + return -ENOMEM; + } else { + wake_up_process(prune_thread); + return 0; + } +} + /* called with audit_filter_mutex */ int audit_add_tree_rule(struct audit_krule *rule) { @@ -674,6 +726,12 @@ int audit_add_tree_rule(struct audit_krule *rule) /* do not set rule->tree yet */ mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); + if (unlikely(!prune_thread)) { + err = audit_launch_prune(); + if (err) + goto Err; + } + err = kern_path(tree->pathname, 0, &path); if (err) goto Err; @@ -811,36 +869,10 @@ int audit_tag_tree(char *old, char *new) return failed; } -/* - * That gets run when evict_chunk() ends up needing to kill audit_tree. - * Runs from a separate thread. - */ -static int prune_tree_thread(void *unused) -{ - mutex_lock(&audit_cmd_mutex); - mutex_lock(&audit_filter_mutex); - - while (!list_empty(&prune_list)) { - struct audit_tree *victim; - - victim = list_entry(prune_list.next, struct audit_tree, list); - list_del_init(&victim->list); - - mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); - - prune_one(victim); - - mutex_lock(&audit_filter_mutex); - } - - mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); - mutex_unlock(&audit_cmd_mutex); - return 0; -} static void audit_schedule_prune(void) { - kthread_run(prune_tree_thread, NULL, "audit_prune_tree"); + wake_up_process(prune_thread); } /* @@ -907,9 +939,9 @@ static void evict_chunk(struct audit_chunk *chunk) for (n = 0; n < chunk->count; n++) list_del_init(&chunk->owners[n].list); spin_unlock(&hash_lock); + mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); if (need_prune) audit_schedule_prune(); - mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); } static int audit_tree_handle_event(struct fsnotify_group *group, -- 1.7.9.5

9 years, 11 months

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[PATCH v10 0/3] arm64: Add audit support

by AKASHI Takahiro

(This patchset was already acked by the maintainers, and re-targeting v3.17. See change history.) (I don't think that discussions below about ptrace() have impact on this patchset. http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-July/268923.html ) This patchset adds system call audit support on arm64. Both 32-bit (AUDIT_ARCH_ARM) and 64-bit tasks (AUDIT_ARCH_AARCH64) are supported. Since arm64 has the exact same set of system calls on LE and BE, we don't care about endianness (or more specifically __AUDIT_ARCH_64BIT bit in AUDIT_ARCH_*). This patch should work correctly with: * userspace audit tool (v2.3.6 or later) This code was tested on both 32-bit and 64-bit LE userland in the following two ways: 1) basic operations with auditctl/autrace # auditctl -a exit,always -S openat -F path=/etc/inittab # auditctl -a exit,always -F dir=/tmp -F perm=rw # auditctl -a task,always # autrace /bin/ls by comparing output from autrace with one from strace 2) audit-test-code (+ my workarounds for arm/arm64) by running "audit-tool", "filter" and "syscalls" test categories. Changes v9 -> v10: * rebased on 3.16-rc3 * included Catalin's patch[1/3] and added more syscall definitions for 3.16 Changes v8 -> v9: * rebased on 3.15-rc, especially due to the change of syscall_get_arch() interface [1,2/2] Changes v7 -> v8: * aligned with the change in "audit: generic compat system call audit support" v5 [1/2] * aligned with the change in "arm64: split syscall_trace() into separate functions for enter/exit" v5 [2/2] Changes v6 -> v7: * changed an include file in syscall.h from <linux/audit.h> to <uapi/linux/audit.h> [1/2] * aligned with the patch, "arm64: split syscall_trace() into separate functions for enter/exit" [2/2] Changes v5 -> v6: * removed and put "arm64: Add regs_return_value() in syscall.h" patch into a separate set * aligned with the change in "arm64: make a single hook to syscall_trace() for all syscall features" v3 [1/2] Changes v4 -> v5: * rebased to 3.14-rcX * added a guard against TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT [3/3] * aligned with the change in "arm64: make a single hook to syscall_trace() for all syscall features" v2 [3/3] Changes v3 -> v4: * Modified to sync with the patch, "make a single hook to syscall_trace() for all syscall features" * aligned with "audit: Add CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL" patch Changes v2 -> v3: * Remove asm/audit.h. See "generic compat syscall audit support" patch v4 * Remove endianness dependency, ie. AUDIT_ARCH_ARMEB/AARCH64EB. * Remove kernel/syscalls/Makefile which was used to create unistd32.h. See Catalin's "Add __NR_* definitions for compat syscalls" patch Changes v1 -> v2: * Modified to utilize "generic compat system call audit" [3/6, 4/6, 5/6] Please note that a required header, unistd_32.h, is automatically generated from unistd32.h. * Refer to regs->orig_x0 instead of regs->x0 as the first argument of system call in audit_syscall_entry() [6/6] * Include "Add regs_return_value() in syscall.h" patch [2/6], which was not intentionally included in v1 because it could be added by "kprobes support". AKASHI Takahiro (2): arm64: Add audit support arm64: audit: Add audit hook in syscall_trace_enter/exit() Catalin Marinas (1): arm64: Add __NR_* definitions for compat syscalls arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 + arch/arm64/include/asm/syscall.h | 14 + arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd.h | 17 + arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h | 1166 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 1 - arch/arm64/kernel/kuser32.S | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 7 + arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c | 2 +- arch/arm64/kernel/sys_compat.c | 2 +- include/uapi/linux/audit.h | 1 + 10 files changed, 810 insertions(+), 404 deletions(-) -- 1.7.9.5

9 years, 11 months

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[RFC PATCH v3] audit: move the tree pruning to a dedicated thread

by Imre Palik

From: "Palik, Imre" <imrep(a)amazon.de> When file auditing is enabled, during a low memory situation, a memory allocation with __GFP_FS can lead to pruning the inode cache. Which can, in turn lead to audit_tree_freeing_mark() being called. This can call audit_schedule_prune(), that tries to fork a pruning thread, and waits until the thread is created. But forking needs memory, and the memory allocations there are done with __GFP_FS. So we are waiting merrily for some __GFP_FS memory allocations to complete, while holding some filesystem locks. This can take a while ... This patch creates a single thread for pruning the tree from audit_add_tree_rule(), and thus avoids the deadlock that the on-demand thread creation can cause. Reported-by: Matt Wilson <msw(a)amazon.com> Cc: Matt Wilson <msw(a)amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Imre Palik <imrep(a)amazon.de> --- kernel/audit_tree.c | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/audit_tree.c b/kernel/audit_tree.c index 2e0c974..4883b6e 100644 --- a/kernel/audit_tree.c +++ b/kernel/audit_tree.c @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ struct audit_chunk { static LIST_HEAD(tree_list); static LIST_HEAD(prune_list); +static struct task_struct *prune_thread; /* * One struct chunk is attached to each inode of interest. @@ -651,6 +652,55 @@ static int tag_mount(struct vfsmount *mnt, void *arg) return tag_chunk(mnt->mnt_root->d_inode, arg); } +/* + * That gets run when evict_chunk() ends up needing to kill audit_tree. + * Runs from a separate thread. + */ +static int prune_tree_thread(void *unused) +{ + for (;;) { + set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); + if (list_empty(&prune_list)) + schedule(); + __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); + + mutex_lock(&audit_cmd_mutex); + mutex_lock(&audit_filter_mutex); + + while (!list_empty(&prune_list)) { + struct audit_tree *victim; + + victim = list_entry(prune_list.next, + struct audit_tree, list); + list_del_init(&victim->list); + + mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); + + prune_one(victim); + + mutex_lock(&audit_filter_mutex); + } + + mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); + mutex_unlock(&audit_cmd_mutex); + } + return 0; +} + +static int launch_prune_thread(void) +{ + prune_thread = kthread_create(prune_tree_thread, NULL, + "audit_prune_tree"); + if (IS_ERR(prune_thread)) { + pr_err("cannot start thread audit_prune_tree"); + prune_thread = NULL; + return -ENOMEM; + } else { + wake_up_process(prune_thread); + return 0; + } +} + /* called with audit_filter_mutex */ int audit_add_tree_rule(struct audit_krule *rule) { @@ -674,6 +724,12 @@ int audit_add_tree_rule(struct audit_krule *rule) /* do not set rule->tree yet */ mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); + if (unlikely(!prune_thread)) { + err = launch_prune_thread(); + if (err) + goto Err; + } + err = kern_path(tree->pathname, 0, &path); if (err) goto Err; @@ -811,36 +867,10 @@ int audit_tag_tree(char *old, char *new) return failed; } -/* - * That gets run when evict_chunk() ends up needing to kill audit_tree. - * Runs from a separate thread. - */ -static int prune_tree_thread(void *unused) -{ - mutex_lock(&audit_cmd_mutex); - mutex_lock(&audit_filter_mutex); - - while (!list_empty(&prune_list)) { - struct audit_tree *victim; - - victim = list_entry(prune_list.next, struct audit_tree, list); - list_del_init(&victim->list); - - mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); - - prune_one(victim); - - mutex_lock(&audit_filter_mutex); - } - - mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); - mutex_unlock(&audit_cmd_mutex); - return 0; -} static void audit_schedule_prune(void) { - kthread_run(prune_tree_thread, NULL, "audit_prune_tree"); + wake_up_process(prune_thread); } /* @@ -907,9 +937,9 @@ static void evict_chunk(struct audit_chunk *chunk) for (n = 0; n < chunk->count; n++) list_del_init(&chunk->owners[n].list); spin_unlock(&hash_lock); + mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); if (need_prune) audit_schedule_prune(); - mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex); } static int audit_tree_handle_event(struct fsnotify_group *group, -- 1.7.9.5

9 years, 11 months

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Catching process termination on SIGKILL

by hsultan＠thefroid.net

Hi, So I'm curious, auditd catches abnormal process termination (SIGSEGV, ...) with a 1701 audit message, can catch 'clean' termination by monitoring syscall (exit, exitgroup), however I don't see anything to catch process termination by a SIGKILL. if I audit the kill() system call then I see the call to send the signal, but I would have expected the system to offer auditing of an actual SIGKILL *reception* (because you can pass -1 as target PID to sigkill, which kills all processes reachable by the caller and will make auditing by syscall very hard to do), am I missing something ? Is there a parameter to set somehow that I'm missing ? Thanks, Hassan

9 years, 11 months

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Detecting loading of libraries

by hsultan＠thefroid.net

Hi, I'm wondering if there's a good way of detecting the loading of libraries by processes (I am specifically NOT talking about the uselib syscall). strace shows me apps do open(...)/mmap/mprotect I'm currently intercepting mmap calls, however no additional context records are given to provide the name of the library, and the file descriptor is the 5th parameter, so I can't get that either to match it to an open(...) Is there a way to do this that I'm missing ? Thanks, Hassan

9 years, 11 months

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[PATCH v2 0/5] Overhaul the audit filename handling

by Paul Moore

This patchset has some important changes from the previous revision, namely a fix from Al Viro (included in 2/5) that resolves a boot panic on some systems as well as some smaller, less noteworthy fixes found in the linux-next announcement thread from January 20th (refcount bump in __audit_reusename() and a inode type in __audit_inode()). This patchset still needs some additional testing to verify that the audit code still functions properly (the minor fixes mentioned above) and there is an additional patch from Al that should be included as well, but I wanted to post this and push the series to the audit next branch quickly since a number of folks were affected by the boot panic. --- Paul Moore (5): fs: rework getname_kernel to handle up to PATH_MAX sized filenames fs: create proper filename objects using getname_kernel() audit: enable filename recording via getname_kernel() audit: fix filename matching in __audit_inode() and __audit_inode_child() audit: replace getname()/putname() hacks with reference counters fs/exec.c | 11 +++ fs/namei.c | 144 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- fs/open.c | 11 +++ include/linux/audit.h | 3 - include/linux/fs.h | 9 +-- kernel/audit.h | 17 +---- kernel/auditsc.c | 171 ++++++++++--------------------------------------- 7 files changed, 155 insertions(+), 211 deletions(-)

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