[PATCH ALT4 V2 1/2] audit: show fstype:pathname for entries with anonymous parents

From: Richard Guy Briggs
Date: Tue Apr 04 2017 - 05:22:10 EST


Tracefs or debugfs were causing hundreds to thousands of null 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

This happens because the parent inode is not found in the task's
audit_names list and hence treats it as anonymous. This gives us no
information other than a numerical device number that may no longer be
visible upon log inspeciton, and an inode number.

Fill in the filesystem type, filesystem magic number and full pathname
from the filesystem mount point on previously null PATH records from
entries that have an anonymous parent from the child dentry using
dentry_path_raw().

Make the dentry argument of __audit_inode_child() non-const so that we
can take a reference to it in the case of an anonymous parent with
dget() and dget_parent() to be able to later print a partial path from
the host filesystem rather than null.

Since all we are given is an inode of the parent and the dentry of the
child, finding the path from the mount point to the root of the
filesystem is more challenging that would involve searching all
vfsmounts from "/" until a matching dentry is found for that
filesystem's root dentry. Even if one is found, there may be more than
one mount point. At this point the gain seems marginal since
knowing the filesystem type and path are a significant help in tracking
down the source of the PATH records and being to address them.

Sample output:
type=PROCTITLE msg=audit(1488317694.446:143): proctitle=2F7362696E2F6D6F6470726F6265002D71002D2D006E66737634
type=PATH msg=audit(1488317694.446:143): item=797 name=tracefs(74726163):/events/nfs4/nfs4_setclientid/format inode=15969 dev=00:09 mode=0100444 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:tracefs_t:s0 nametype=CREATE
type=PATH msg=audit(1488317694.446:143): item=796 name=tracefs(74726163):/events/nfs4/nfs4_setclientid inode=15964 dev=00:09 mode=040755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:tracefs_t:s0 nametype=PARENT
...
type=PATH msg=audit(1488317694.446:143): item=1 name=tracefs(74726163):/events/nfs4 inode=15571 dev=00:09 mode=040755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:tracefs_t:s0 nametype=CREATE
type=PATH msg=audit(1488317694.446:143): item=0 name=tracefs(74726163):/events inode=119 dev=00:09 mode=040755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:tracefs_t:s0 nametype=PARENT
type=UNKNOWN[1330] msg=audit(1488317694.446:143): name="nfsv4"
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1488317694.446:143): arch=c000003e syscall=313 success=yes exit=0 a0=1 a1=55d5a35ce106 a2=0 a3=1 items=798 ppid=6 pid=528 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="modprobe" exe="/usr/bin/kmod" subj=system_u:system_r:insmod_t:s0 key="mod-load"

See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/8
Test case: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-testsuite/issues/42

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/audit.h | 8 ++++----
kernel/audit.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
kernel/audit.h | 1 +
kernel/auditsc.c | 8 +++++++-
4 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/audit.h b/include/linux/audit.h
index aba3a26..367a03a 100644
--- a/include/linux/audit.h
+++ b/include/linux/audit.h
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ extern void __audit_inode(struct filename *name, const struct dentry *dentry,
unsigned int flags);
extern void __audit_file(const struct file *);
extern void __audit_inode_child(struct inode *parent,
- const struct dentry *dentry,
+ struct dentry *dentry,
const unsigned char type);
extern void __audit_seccomp(unsigned long syscall, long signr, int code);
extern void __audit_ptrace(struct task_struct *t);
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ static inline void audit_inode_parent_hidden(struct filename *name,
AUDIT_INODE_PARENT | AUDIT_INODE_HIDDEN);
}
static inline void audit_inode_child(struct inode *parent,
- const struct dentry *dentry,
+ struct dentry *dentry,
const unsigned char type) {
if (unlikely(!audit_dummy_context()))
__audit_inode_child(parent, dentry, type);
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ static inline void __audit_inode(struct filename *name,
unsigned int flags)
{ }
static inline void __audit_inode_child(struct inode *parent,
- const struct dentry *dentry,
+ struct dentry *dentry,
const unsigned char type)
{ }
static inline void audit_inode(struct filename *name,
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ static inline void audit_inode_parent_hidden(struct filename *name,
const struct dentry *dentry)
{ }
static inline void audit_inode_child(struct inode *parent,
- const struct dentry *dentry,
+ struct dentry *dentry,
const unsigned char type)
{ }
static inline void audit_core_dumps(long signr)
diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 25dd70a..7d83c5a 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
#include <linux/freezer.h>
#include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
#include <net/netns/generic.h>
+#include <linux/dcache.h>

#include "audit.h"

@@ -1884,6 +1885,10 @@ void audit_copy_inode(struct audit_names *name, const struct dentry *dentry,
name->gid = inode->i_gid;
name->rdev = inode->i_rdev;
security_inode_getsecid(inode, &name->osid);
+ if (name->dentry) {
+ dput(name->dentry);
+ name->dentry = NULL;
+ }
audit_copy_fcaps(name, dentry);
}

@@ -1925,6 +1930,17 @@ void audit_log_name(struct audit_context *context, struct audit_names *n,
audit_log_n_untrustedstring(ab, n->name->name,
n->name_len);
}
+ } else if (n->dentry) {
+ char *fullpath;
+ const char *fullpathp;
+
+ fullpath = kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!fullpath)
+ return;
+ fullpathp = dentry_path_raw(n->dentry, fullpath, PATH_MAX);
+ audit_log_format(ab, " name=%s(0x%lx):%s",
+ n->dentry->d_sb->s_type->name?:"?",
+ n->dentry->d_sb->s_magic, fullpathp?:"?");
} else
audit_log_format(ab, " name=(null)");

diff --git a/kernel/audit.h b/kernel/audit.h
index 144b7eb..2a11583 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.h
+++ b/kernel/audit.h
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ struct audit_names {

unsigned long ino;
dev_t dev;
+ struct dentry *dentry;
umode_t mode;
kuid_t uid;
kgid_t gid;
diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index 4db32e8..b3797c7 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <uapi/linux/limits.h>
+#include <linux/dcache.h>

#include "audit.h"

@@ -881,6 +882,8 @@ static inline void audit_free_names(struct audit_context *context)
list_del(&n->list);
if (n->name)
putname(n->name);
+ if (n->dentry)
+ dput(n->dentry);
if (n->should_free)
kfree(n);
}
@@ -1858,7 +1861,7 @@ void __audit_file(const struct file *file)
* unsuccessful attempts.
*/
void __audit_inode_child(struct inode *parent,
- const struct dentry *dentry,
+ struct dentry *dentry,
const unsigned char type)
{
struct audit_context *context = current->audit_context;
@@ -1914,6 +1917,7 @@ void __audit_inode_child(struct inode *parent,
if (!n)
return;
audit_copy_inode(n, NULL, parent);
+ n->dentry = dget_parent(dentry);
}

if (!found_child) {
@@ -1935,6 +1939,8 @@ void __audit_inode_child(struct inode *parent,
audit_copy_inode(found_child, dentry, inode);
else
found_child->ino = AUDIT_INO_UNSET;
+ if (!found_parent)
+ found_child->dentry = dget(dentry);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__audit_inode_child);

--
1.7.1