On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Paul Moore <paul(a)paul-moore.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 9:08 PM, Tyler Hicks
<tyhicks(a)canonical.com> wrote:
> Seccomp received improved logging controls in v4.14. Applications can opt into
> logging of "handled" actions (SECCOMP_RET_TRAP, SECCOMP_RET_TRACE,
> SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO) using the SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_LOG bit when loading filters.
> They can also debug filter matching with the new SECCOMP_RET_LOG action.
> Administrators can prevent specific actions from being logged using the
> kernel.seccomp.actions_logged sysctl.
>
> However, one corner case intentionally wasn't addressed in those v4.14 changes.
> When a process is being inspected by the audit subsystem, seccomp's decision
> making for logging ignores the new controls and unconditionally logs every
> action taken except for SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW. This isn't particularly useful since
> many existing applications don't intend to log handled actions due to them
> occurring very frequently. This amount of logging fills the audit logs without
> providing many benefits now that application authors have fine grained controls
> at their disposal.
>
> This patch set aligns the seccomp logging behavior for both audited and
> non-audited processes. It also emits an audit record, if auditing is enabled,
> when the kernel.seccomp.actions_logged sysctl is written to so that there's a
> paper trail when entire actions are quieted.
>
> Changes in v3:
> * Patch 3
> - Never drop a field when emitting the audit record
> - Use the value "?" for the actions field when an error occurred while
> writing to the sysctl
> - Use the value "?" for the actions and/or old-actions fields when a
failure
> to translate actions to names
> - Use the value "(none)" for the actions and/or old-actions fields when
no
> actions are specified
> + This is possible when writing an empty string to the sysctl
> - Update the commit message to note the new values and give an example of
> when an empty string is written
> * Patch 4
> - Adjust the control flow of seccomp_log() to exit early if nothing should be
> logged
>
> Changes in v2:
> * Patch 2
> - New patch, allowing for a configurable separator between action names
> * Patch 3
> - The value of the actions field in the audit record now uses a comma instead
> of a space
> - The value of the actions field in the audit record is no longer enclosed in
> quotes
> - audit_log_start() is called with the current processes' audit_context in
> audit_seccomp_actions_logged()
> - audit_seccomp_actions_logged() no longer records the pid, uid, auid, tty,
> ses, task context, comm, or executable path
> - The new and old value of seccomp_actions_logged is recorded in the
> AUDIT_CONFIG_CHANGE record
> - The value of the "res" field in the CONFIG_CHANGE audit record is
corrected
> (1 indicates success, 0 failure)
> - Updated patch 3's commit message to reflect the updated audit record format
> in the examples
> * Patch 4
> - A function comment for audit_seccomp() was added to explain, among other
> things, that event filtering is performed in seccomp_log()
Kees, are you still okay with v3? Also, are you okay with these
patches going in via the audit tree, or would you prefer to take them
via seccomp? I've got a slight preference for the audit tree myself,
but as I said before, as long as it hits Linus' tree I'm happy.
Yup, it looks good. I have no tree preference, so you win! :) Please
consider the whole series:
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook(a)chromium.org>
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Pixel Security