From: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: audit@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] audit: add task history record
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:44:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHC9VhTLQjjQ0QMfBDHYCz9LOAuO=rJWSDEUqPsFE+dowFbN=Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36b65eb1-ccbf-8b81-468f-b8d88c4be5a3@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 6:58 AM Tetsuo Handa
<penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
>
> When an unexpected system event occurs, the administrator may want to
> identify which application triggered the event. For example, unexpected
> process termination is still a real concern enough to write articles
> like https://access.redhat.com/solutions/165993 .
>
> This patch adds a record which emits TOMOYO-like task history information
> into the audit logs for better understanding of unexpected system events.
>
> type=UNKNOWN[1340] msg=audit(1691750738.271:108): history="name=swapper/0;pid=1;start=20230811194329=>name=init;pid=1;start=20230811194343=>name=systemd;pid=1;start=20230811194439=>name=sshd;pid=3660;start=20230811104504=>name=sshd;pid=3767;start=20230811104535"
While I respect your persistence, we've talked about this quite a bit
already in other threads. What you are trying to do is already
possible with audit and/or TOMOYO enabled and configured so I see no
reason why we want to merge this. I understand your frustration that
TOMOYO is not enabled by your prefered distribution, but adding
additional (and arguably redundant code) code to the upstream kernel
is not a solution I am willing to support and maintain long term.
> To be able to avoid bloating audit log files due to this information, this
> patch uses audit_history= kernel command line parameter that controls max
> length of history in bytes (default is 1024, and setting to 0 disables
> recording and emitting).
>
> Unlike execve()'s argv record, records in this history information is
> emitted as one string in order to reduce bloat of the audit log files.
> This information can be split into an array using => as the tokenizer.
> But don't expect that you can compare array elements throughout the whole
> audit logs by splitting into an array, for old records get removed from
> history when history became too long to append the newest record. This
> history information is meant to be interpreted by humans rather than be
> analyzed by programs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
> ---
> fs/exec.c | 1 +
> include/linux/audit.h | 5 ++
> include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
> include/uapi/linux/audit.h | 1 +
> init/init_task.c | 7 +++
> kernel/audit.c | 1 +
> kernel/auditsc.c | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 7 files changed, 124 insertions(+)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-15 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-11 10:58 [PATCH] audit: add task history record Tetsuo Handa
2023-08-11 17:50 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2023-08-12 10:08 ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-08-15 18:44 ` Paul Moore [this message]
2023-08-16 10:10 ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-08-16 13:53 ` Paul Moore
2023-08-18 10:29 ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-08-18 14:59 ` Paul Moore
2023-08-19 7:09 ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-08-21 16:04 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2023-08-21 22:23 ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-08-21 16:35 ` Paul Moore
2023-08-23 14:18 ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-08-23 14:48 ` Paul Moore
2023-08-24 13:21 ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-08-24 13:30 ` Paul Moore
2023-08-24 13:39 ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-08-24 13:47 ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-08-24 14:26 ` Paul Moore
2023-08-24 22:24 ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-08-25 3:36 ` Paul Moore
2023-08-26 6:38 ` Tetsuo Handa
2023-08-26 14:47 ` Paul Moore
2023-08-24 14:24 ` Paul Moore
2023-08-24 15:55 ` Steve Grubb
2023-08-24 17:02 ` Paul Moore
2023-08-22 16:29 ` Steve Grubb
2023-08-22 17:58 ` Paul Moore
2023-08-21 17:29 ` Serge Hallyn
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