From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
To: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
Linux-Audit Mailing List <linux-audit@redhat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>,
Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>, Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
twoerner@redhat.com, tgraf@infradead.org,
dan.carpenter@oracle.com,
Jones Desougi <jones.desougi+netfilter@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] audit: log nftables configuration change events once per table
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 09:34:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210401133447.GB3141668@madcap2.tricolour.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210401132444.GX3158@orbyte.nwl.cc>
On 2021-04-01 15:24, Phil Sutter wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 01:38:59PM -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > Reduce logging of nftables events to a level similar to iptables.
> > Restore the table field to list the table, adding the generation.
> >
> > Indicate the op as the most significant operation in the event.
> >
> > A couple of sample events:
> >
> > type=PROCTITLE msg=audit(2021-03-18 09:30:49.801:143) : proctitle=/usr/bin/python3 -s /usr/sbin/firewalld --nofork --nopid
> > type=SYSCALL msg=audit(2021-03-18 09:30:49.801:143) : arch=x86_64 syscall=sendmsg success=yes exit=172 a0=0x6 a1=0x7ffdcfcbe650 a2=0x0 a3=0x7ffdcfcbd52c items=0 ppid=1 pid=367 auid=unset uid=root gid=root euid=root suid=root fsuid=root egid=roo
> > t sgid=root fsgid=root tty=(none) ses=unset comm=firewalld exe=/usr/bin/python3.9 subj=system_u:system_r:firewalld_t:s0 key=(null)
> > type=NETFILTER_CFG msg=audit(2021-03-18 09:30:49.801:143) : table=firewalld:2 family=ipv6 entries=1 op=nft_register_table pid=367 subj=system_u:system_r:firewalld_t:s0 comm=firewalld
> > type=NETFILTER_CFG msg=audit(2021-03-18 09:30:49.801:143) : table=firewalld:2 family=ipv4 entries=1 op=nft_register_table pid=367 subj=system_u:system_r:firewalld_t:s0 comm=firewalld
> > type=NETFILTER_CFG msg=audit(2021-03-18 09:30:49.801:143) : table=firewalld:2 family=inet entries=1 op=nft_register_table pid=367 subj=system_u:system_r:firewalld_t:s0 comm=firewalld
> >
> > type=PROCTITLE msg=audit(2021-03-18 09:30:49.839:144) : proctitle=/usr/bin/python3 -s /usr/sbin/firewalld --nofork --nopid
> > type=SYSCALL msg=audit(2021-03-18 09:30:49.839:144) : arch=x86_64 syscall=sendmsg success=yes exit=22792 a0=0x6 a1=0x7ffdcfcbe650 a2=0x0 a3=0x7ffdcfcbd52c items=0 ppid=1 pid=367 auid=unset uid=root gid=root euid=root suid=root fsuid=root egid=r
> > oot sgid=root fsgid=root tty=(none) ses=unset comm=firewalld exe=/usr/bin/python3.9 subj=system_u:system_r:firewalld_t:s0 key=(null)
> > type=NETFILTER_CFG msg=audit(2021-03-18 09:30:49.839:144) : table=firewalld:3 family=ipv6 entries=30 op=nft_register_chain pid=367 subj=system_u:system_r:firewalld_t:s0 comm=firewalld
> > type=NETFILTER_CFG msg=audit(2021-03-18 09:30:49.839:144) : table=firewalld:3 family=ipv4 entries=30 op=nft_register_chain pid=367 subj=system_u:system_r:firewalld_t:s0 comm=firewalld
> > type=NETFILTER_CFG msg=audit(2021-03-18 09:30:49.839:144) : table=firewalld:3 family=inet entries=165 op=nft_register_chain pid=367 subj=system_u:system_r:firewalld_t:s0 comm=firewalld
> >
> > The issue was originally documented in
> > https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/124
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
>
> Tested this patch to make sure it eliminates the slowdown of
> iptables-nft when auditd is running. With this applied, neither
> iptables-nft-restore nor 'iptables-nft -F' show a significant
> difference in run-time between running or stopped auditd, at least for
> large rulesets. Individual calls suffer from added audit logging, but
> that's expected of course.
>
> Tested-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Excellent, thanks Phil for helping nail this one down and confirming the
fix.
> Thanks, Phil
- RGB
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-01 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-26 17:38 [PATCH v5] audit: log nftables configuration change events once per table Richard Guy Briggs
2021-03-29 0:50 ` Paul Moore
2021-03-30 22:53 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2021-03-31 0:50 ` Paul Moore
2021-03-31 20:22 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2021-03-31 20:53 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2021-03-31 20:56 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2021-03-31 20:46 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2021-03-31 20:55 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2021-04-01 13:24 ` Phil Sutter
2021-04-01 13:34 ` Richard Guy Briggs [this message]
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