Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] selinux: add basic filtering for audit trace events

From: Stephen Smalley
Date: Tue Aug 18 2020 - 10:36:20 EST


On 8/17/20 1:07 PM, Thiébaud Weksteen wrote:

From: Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@xxxxxxxx>

This patch adds further attributes to the event. These attributes are
helpful to understand the context of the message and can be used
to filter the events.

There are three common items. Source context, target context and tclass.
There are also items from the outcome of operation performed.

An event is similar to:
<...>-1309 [002] .... 6346.691689: selinux_audited:
requested=0x4000000 denied=0x4000000 audited=0x4000000
result=-13
scontext=system_u:system_r:cupsd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
tcontext=system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0 tclass=file

With systems where many denials are occurring, it is useful to apply a
filter. The filtering is a set of logic that is inserted with
the filter file. Example:
echo "tclass==\"file\" " > events/avc/selinux_audited/filter

This adds that we only get tclass=file.

The trace can also have extra properties. Adding the user stack
can be done with
echo 1 > options/userstacktrace

Now the output will be
runcon-1365 [003] .... 6960.955530: selinux_audited:
requested=0x4000000 denied=0x4000000 audited=0x4000000
result=-13
scontext=system_u:system_r:cupsd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
tcontext=system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0 tclass=file
runcon-1365 [003] .... 6960.955560: <user stack trace>
=> <00007f325b4ce45b>
=> <00005607093efa57>

Signed-off-by: Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Thiébaud Weksteen <tweek@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/security/selinux/avc.c b/security/selinux/avc.c
index b0a0af778b70..7de5cc5169af 100644
--- a/security/selinux/avc.c
+++ b/security/selinux/avc.c
@@ -705,35 +705,39 @@ static void avc_audit_post_callback(struct audit_buffer *ab, void *a)
{
struct common_audit_data *ad = a;
struct selinux_audit_data *sad = ad->selinux_audit_data;
- char *scontext;
+ char *scontext = NULL;
+ char *tcontext = NULL;
+ const char *tclass = NULL;
u32 scontext_len;
+ u32 tcontext_len;
int rc;
- trace_selinux_audited(sad);
-
rc = security_sid_to_context(sad->state, sad->ssid, &scontext,
&scontext_len);
if (rc)
audit_log_format(ab, " ssid=%d", sad->ssid);
else {
audit_log_format(ab, " scontext=%s", scontext);
- kfree(scontext);
}
I guess technically you should drop the { } above since it is reduced to a single statement body.
- rc = security_sid_to_context(sad->state, sad->tsid, &scontext,
- &scontext_len);
+ rc = security_sid_to_context(sad->state, sad->tsid, &tcontext,
+ &tcontext_len);
if (rc)
audit_log_format(ab, " tsid=%d", sad->tsid);
else {
- audit_log_format(ab, " tcontext=%s", scontext);
- kfree(scontext);
+ audit_log_format(ab, " tcontext=%s", tcontext);
}
Ditto.