Re: [PATCH ghak46 V1] audit: normalize MAC_STATUS record

From: Ondrej Mosnacek
Date: Mon Apr 16 2018 - 03:26:56 EST


2018-04-10 1:34 GMT+02:00 Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> There were two formats of the audit MAC_STATUS record, one of which was more
> standard than the other. One listed enforcing status changes and the
> other listed enabled status changes with a non-standard label. In
> addition, the record was missing information about which LSM was
> responsible and the operation's completion status. While this record is
> only issued on success, the parser expects the res= field to be present.
>
> old enforcing/permissive:
> type=MAC_STATUS msg=audit(1523312831.378:24514): enforcing=0 old_enforcing=1 auid=0 ses=1
> old enable/disable:
> type=MAC_STATUS msg=audit(1523312831.378:24514): selinux=0 auid=0 ses=1
>
> List both sets of status and old values and add the lsm= field and the
> res= field.
>
> Here is the new format:
> type=MAC_STATUS msg=audit(1523293828.657:891): enforcing=0 old_enforcing=1 auid=0 ses=1 enabled=1 old-enabled=1 lsm=selinux res=1
>
> This record already accompanied a SYSCALL record.
>
> See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/46
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 11 +++++++----
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> index 00eed84..00b21b2 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> @@ -145,10 +145,11 @@ static ssize_t sel_write_enforce(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
> if (length)
> goto out;
> audit_log(current->audit_context, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_MAC_STATUS,
> - "enforcing=%d old_enforcing=%d auid=%u ses=%u",
> + "enforcing=%d old_enforcing=%d auid=%u ses=%u"
> + " enabled=%d old-enabled=%d lsm=selinux res=1",

This is just a tiny nit but why does "old_enforcing" use an underscore
and "old-enabled" a dash? Shouldn't the style be consistent across
fields?

Just my two cents...

> new_value, selinux_enforcing,
> from_kuid(&init_user_ns, audit_get_loginuid(current)),
> - audit_get_sessionid(current));
> + audit_get_sessionid(current), selinux_enabled, selinux_enabled);
> selinux_enforcing = new_value;
> if (selinux_enforcing)
> avc_ss_reset(0);
> @@ -272,9 +273,11 @@ static ssize_t sel_write_disable(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
> if (length)
> goto out;
> audit_log(current->audit_context, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_MAC_STATUS,
> - "selinux=0 auid=%u ses=%u",
> + "enforcing=%d old_enforcing=%d auid=%u ses=%u"
> + " enabled=%d old-enabled=%d lsm=selinux res=1",
> + selinux_enforcing, selinux_enforcing,

^ also here

> from_kuid(&init_user_ns, audit_get_loginuid(current)),
> - audit_get_sessionid(current));
> + audit_get_sessionid(current), 0, 1);
> }
>
> length = count;
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
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Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace at redhat dot com>
Associate Software Engineer, Security Technologies
Red Hat, Inc.