Re: [PATCH ghak90 V8 14/16] audit: check contid depth and add limit config param

[Paul Moore]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 2:51 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Clamp the depth of audit container identifier nesting to limit the
> netlink and disk bandwidth used and to prevent losing information from
> record text size overflow in the contid field.
>
> Add a configuration parameter AUDIT_STATUS_CONTID_DEPTH_LIMIT (0x80) to
> set the audit container identifier depth limit.  This can be used to
> prevent overflow of the contid field in CONTAINER_OP and CONTAINER_ID
> messages, losing information, and to limit bandwidth used by these
> messages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/audit.h |  2 ++
>  kernel/audit.c             | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/audit.h             |  2 ++
>  3 files changed, 50 insertions(+)

Since setting an audit container ID, and hence acting as an
orchestrator and creating a new nested level of audit container IDs,
is a privileged operation I think we can equate this to the infamous
"shooting oneself in the foot" problem.  Let's leave this limitation
out of the patchset for now, if it becomes a problem in the future we
can consider restricting the nesting depth.

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paul moore
www.paul-moore.com