Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] seccomp: Audit attempts to modify the actions_logged sysctl

[Steve Grubb]

On Thursday, May 3, 2018 9:08:14 PM EDT Tyler Hicks wrote:
> The decision to log a seccomp action will always be subject to the
> value of the kernel.seccomp.actions_logged sysctl, even for processes
> that are being inspected via the audit subsystem, in an upcoming patch.
> Therefore, we need to emit an audit record on attempts at writing to the
> actions_logged sysctl when auditing is enabled.
> 
> This patch updates the write handler for the actions_logged sysctl to
> emit an audit record on attempts to write to the sysctl. Successful
> writes to the sysctl will result in a record that includes a normalized
> list of logged actions in the "actions" field and a "res" field equal to
> 1. Unsuccessful writes to the sysctl will result in a record that
> doesn't include the "actions" field and has a "res" field equal to 0.
> 
> Not all unsuccessful writes to the sysctl are audited. For example, an
> audit record will not be emitted if an unprivileged process attempts to
> open the sysctl file for reading since that access control check is not
> part of the sysctl's write handler.
> 
> Below are some example audit records when writing various strings to the
> actions_logged sysctl.
> 
> Writing "not-a-real-action", when the kernel.seccomp.actions_logged
> sysctl previously was "kill_process kill_thread trap errno trace log",
> emits this audit record:
> 
>  type=CONFIG_CHANGE msg=audit(1525392371.454:120): op=seccomp-logging
>  actions=? old-actions=kill_process,kill_thread,trap,errno,trace,log
>  res=0
> 
> If you then write "kill_process kill_thread errno trace log", this audit
> record is emitted:
> 
>  type=CONFIG_CHANGE msg=audit(1525392401.645:126): op=seccomp-logging
>  actions=kill_process,kill_thread,errno,trace,log
>  old-actions=kill_process,kill_thread,trap,errno,trace,log res=1
> 
> If you then write "log log errno trace kill_process kill_thread", which
> is unordered and contains the log action twice, it results in the same
> actions value as the previous record:
> 
>  type=CONFIG_CHANGE msg=audit(1525392436.354:132): op=seccomp-logging
>  actions=kill_process,kill_thread,errno,trace,log
>  old-actions=kill_process,kill_thread,errno,trace,log res=1
> 
> If you then write an empty string to the sysctl, this audit record is
> emitted:
> 
>  type=CONFIG_CHANGE msg=audit(1525392494.413:138): op=seccomp-logging
>  actions=(none) old-actions=kill_process,kill_thread,errno,trace,log
>  res=1
> 
> No audit records are generated when reading the actions_logged sysctl.

This appears to cover all the corner cases we talked about. ACK for the 
format of the records.

Thanks,
-Steve
 
> Suggested-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/audit.h |  5 +++++
>  kernel/auditsc.c      | 20 ++++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/seccomp.c      | 58
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 3 files changed, 74
> insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/audit.h b/include/linux/audit.h
> index 75d5b03..d4e35e7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/audit.h
> +++ b/include/linux/audit.h
> @@ -233,6 +233,8 @@ extern void __audit_inode_child(struct inode *parent,
>  				const struct dentry *dentry,
>  				const unsigned char type);
>  extern void __audit_seccomp(unsigned long syscall, long signr, int code);
> +extern void audit_seccomp_actions_logged(const char *names,
> +					 const char *old_names, int res);
>  extern void __audit_ptrace(struct task_struct *t);
> 
>  static inline bool audit_dummy_context(void)
> @@ -502,6 +504,9 @@ static inline void __audit_seccomp(unsigned long
> syscall, long signr, int code) { }
>  static inline void audit_seccomp(unsigned long syscall, long signr, int
> code) { }
> +static inline void audit_seccomp_actions_logged(const char *names,
> +						const char *old_names, int res)
> +{ }
>  static inline int auditsc_get_stamp(struct audit_context *ctx,
>  			      struct timespec64 *t, unsigned int *serial)
>  {
> diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
> index 4e0a4ac..5195a29 100644
> --- a/kernel/auditsc.c
> +++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
> @@ -2478,6 +2478,26 @@ void __audit_seccomp(unsigned long syscall, long
> signr, int code) audit_log_end(ab);
>  }
> 
> +void audit_seccomp_actions_logged(const char *names, const char
> *old_names, +				  int res)
> +{
> +	struct audit_buffer *ab;
> +
> +	if (!audit_enabled)
> +		return;
> +
> +	ab = audit_log_start(current->audit_context, GFP_KERNEL,
> +			     AUDIT_CONFIG_CHANGE);
> +	if (unlikely(!ab))
> +		return;
> +
> +	audit_log_format(ab, "op=seccomp-logging");
> +	audit_log_format(ab, " actions=%s", names);
> +	audit_log_format(ab, " old-actions=%s", old_names);
> +	audit_log_format(ab, " res=%d", res);
> +	audit_log_end(ab);
> +}
> +
>  struct list_head *audit_killed_trees(void)
>  {
>  	struct audit_context *ctx = current->audit_context;
> diff --git a/kernel/seccomp.c b/kernel/seccomp.c
> index b36ac1e..f5630d1 100644
> --- a/kernel/seccomp.c
> +++ b/kernel/seccomp.c
> @@ -1219,11 +1219,10 @@ static int read_actions_logged(struct ctl_table
> *ro_table, void __user *buffer, }
> 
>  static int write_actions_logged(struct ctl_table *ro_table, void __user
> *buffer, -				size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
> +				size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos, u32 *actions_logged)
>  {
>  	char names[sizeof(seccomp_actions_avail)];
>  	struct ctl_table table;
> -	u32 actions_logged;
>  	int ret;
> 
>  	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> @@ -1238,24 +1237,65 @@ static int write_actions_logged(struct ctl_table
> *ro_table, void __user *buffer, if (ret)
>  		return ret;
> 
> -	if (!seccomp_actions_logged_from_names(&actions_logged, table.data))
> +	if (!seccomp_actions_logged_from_names(actions_logged, table.data))
>  		return -EINVAL;
> 
> -	if (actions_logged & SECCOMP_LOG_ALLOW)
> +	if (*actions_logged & SECCOMP_LOG_ALLOW)
>  		return -EINVAL;
> 
> -	seccomp_actions_logged = actions_logged;
> +	seccomp_actions_logged = *actions_logged;
>  	return 0;
>  }
> 
> +static void audit_actions_logged(u32 actions_logged, u32
> old_actions_logged, +				 int ret)
> +{
> +	char names[sizeof(seccomp_actions_avail)];
> +	char old_names[sizeof(seccomp_actions_avail)];
> +	const char *new = names;
> +	const char *old = old_names;
> +
> +	if (!audit_enabled)
> +		return;
> +
> +	memset(names, 0, sizeof(names));
> +	memset(old_names, 0, sizeof(old_names));
> +
> +	if (ret)
> +		new = "?";
> +	else if (!actions_logged)
> +		new = "(none)";
> +	else if (!seccomp_names_from_actions_logged(names, sizeof(names),
> +						    actions_logged, ","))
> +		new = "?";
> +
> +	if (!old_actions_logged)
> +		old = "(none)";
> +	else if (!seccomp_names_from_actions_logged(old_names,
> +						    sizeof(old_names),
> +						    old_actions_logged, ","))
> +		old = "?";
> +
> +	return audit_seccomp_actions_logged(new, old, !ret);
> +}
> +
>  static int seccomp_actions_logged_handler(struct ctl_table *ro_table, int
> write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
>  					  loff_t *ppos)
>  {
> -	if (write)
> -		return write_actions_logged(ro_table, buffer, lenp, ppos);
> -	else
> -		return read_actions_logged(ro_table, buffer, lenp, ppos);
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	if (write) {
> +		u32 actions_logged = 0;
> +		u32 old_actions_logged = seccomp_actions_logged;
> +
> +		ret = write_actions_logged(ro_table, buffer, lenp, ppos,
> +					   &actions_logged);
> +		audit_actions_logged(actions_logged, old_actions_logged, ret);
> +	} else
> +		ret = read_actions_logged(ro_table, buffer, lenp, ppos);
> +
> +	return ret;
>  }
> 
>  static struct ctl_path seccomp_sysctl_path[] = {