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From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
To: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>,
	linux-audit@redhat.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
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	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>,
	mpatel@redhat.com, Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ghak90 V8 07/16] audit: add contid support for signalling the audit daemon
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:55:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200318215550.es4stkjwnefrfen2@madcap2.tricolour.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHC9VhRYvGAru3aOMwWKCCWDktS+2pGr+=vV4SjHW_0yewD98A@mail.gmail.com>

On 2020-03-18 17:42, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 5:27 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 2020-03-18 16:56, Paul Moore wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 2:59 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > On 2020-03-13 12:29, Paul Moore wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 3:30 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > > > On 2020-02-13 16:44, Paul Moore wrote:
> > > > > > > This is a bit of a thread-hijack, and for that I apologize, but
> > > > > > > another thought crossed my mind while thinking about this issue
> > > > > > > further ... Once we support multiple auditd instances, including the
> > > > > > > necessary record routing and duplication/multiple-sends (the host
> > > > > > > always sees *everything*), we will likely need to find a way to "trim"
> > > > > > > the audit container ID (ACID) lists we send in the records.  The
> > > > > > > auditd instance running on the host/initns will always see everything,
> > > > > > > so it will want the full container ACID list; however an auditd
> > > > > > > instance running inside a container really should only see the ACIDs
> > > > > > > of any child containers.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Agreed.  This should be easy to check and limit, preventing an auditd
> > > > > > from seeing any contid that is a parent of its own contid.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > For example, imagine a system where the host has containers 1 and 2,
> > > > > > > each running an auditd instance.  Inside container 1 there are
> > > > > > > containers A and B.  Inside container 2 there are containers Y and Z.
> > > > > > > If an audit event is generated in container Z, I would expect the
> > > > > > > host's auditd to see a ACID list of "1,Z" but container 1's auditd
> > > > > > > should only see an ACID list of "Z".  The auditd running in container
> > > > > > > 2 should not see the record at all (that will be relatively
> > > > > > > straightforward).  Does that make sense?  Do we have the record
> > > > > > > formats properly designed to handle this without too much problem (I'm
> > > > > > > not entirely sure we do)?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I completely agree and I believe we have record formats that are able to
> > > > > > handle this already.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm not convinced we do.  What about the cases where we have a field
> > > > > with a list of audit container IDs?  How do we handle that?
> > > >
> > > > I don't understand the problem.  (I think you crossed your 1/2 vs
> > > > A/B/Y/Z in your example.) ...
> > >
> > > It looks like I did, sorry about that.
> > >
> > > > ... Clarifying the example above, if as you
> > > > suggest an event happens in container Z, the hosts's auditd would report
> > > >         Z,^2
> > > > and the auditd in container 2 would report
> > > >         Z,^2
> > > > but if there were another auditd running in container Z it would report
> > > >         Z
> > > > while the auditd in container 1 or A/B would see nothing.
> > >
> > > Yes.  My concern is how do we handle this to minimize duplicating and
> > > rewriting the records?  It isn't so much about the format, although
> > > the format is a side effect.
> >
> > Are you talking about caching, or about divulging more information than
> > necessary or even information leaks?  Or even noticing that records that
> > need to be generated to two audit daemons share the same contid field
> > values and should be generated at the same time or information shared
> > between them?  I'd see any of these as optimizations that don't affect
> > the api.
> 
> Imagine a record is generated in a container which has more than one
> auditd in it's ancestry that should receive this record, how do we
> handle that without completely killing performance?  That's my
> concern.  If you've already thought up a plan for this - excellent,
> please share :)

No, I haven't given that much thought other than the correctness and
security issues of making sure that each audit daemon is sufficiently
isolated to do its job but not jeopardize another audit domain.  Audit
already kills performance, according to some...

We currently won't have that problem since there can only be one so far.
Fixing and optimizing this is part of the next phase of the challenge of
adding a second audit daemon.

Let's work on correctness and reasonable efficiency for this phase and
not focus on a problem we don't yet have.  I wouldn't consider this
incurring technical debt at this point.

I could see cacheing a contid string from one starting point, but it may
be more work to search that cached string to truncate it or add to it
when another audit daemon requests a copy of a similar string.  I
suppose every full contid string could be generated the first time it is
used and parts of it used (start/finish) as needed but that
search/indexing may not be worth it.

> paul moore

- RGB

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-18 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-31 19:48 [PATCH ghak90 V8 00/16] audit: implement container identifier Richard Guy Briggs
2019-12-31 19:48 ` [PATCH ghak90 V8 01/16] audit: collect audit task parameters Richard Guy Briggs
2019-12-31 19:48 ` [PATCH ghak90 V8 02/16] audit: add container id Richard Guy Briggs
2020-01-22 21:28   ` Paul Moore
2020-01-30 17:53     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-12-31 19:48 ` [PATCH ghak90 V8 03/16] audit: read container ID of a process Richard Guy Briggs
2019-12-31 19:48 ` [PATCH ghak90 V8 04/16] audit: convert to contid list to check for orch/engine ownership Richard Guy Briggs
2020-01-22 21:28   ` Paul Moore
2020-02-04 22:51     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-02-05 22:40       ` Paul Moore
2019-12-31 19:48 ` [PATCH ghak90 V8 05/16] audit: log drop of contid on exit of last task Richard Guy Briggs
2020-01-22 21:28   ` Paul Moore
2020-02-04 23:02     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-12-31 19:48 ` [PATCH ghak90 V8 06/16] audit: log container info of syscalls Richard Guy Briggs
2019-12-31 19:48 ` [PATCH ghak90 V8 07/16] audit: add contid support for signalling the audit daemon Richard Guy Briggs
2020-01-22 21:28   ` Paul Moore
2020-01-23 16:29     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-01-23 17:09       ` Paul Moore
2020-01-23 20:04         ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-01-23 21:35           ` Paul Moore
2020-02-04 23:14             ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-02-05 22:50               ` Paul Moore
2020-02-12 22:38                 ` Steve Grubb
2020-02-13  0:09                   ` Paul Moore
2020-02-13 21:44                     ` Paul Moore
2020-03-12 19:30                       ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-03-13 16:29                         ` Paul Moore
2020-03-13 18:59                           ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-03-18 20:56                             ` Paul Moore
2020-03-18 21:26                               ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-03-18 21:42                                 ` Paul Moore
2020-03-18 21:55                                   ` Richard Guy Briggs [this message]
2020-03-18 22:06                                     ` Paul Moore
2020-03-19 22:02                                       ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-03-24  0:16                                         ` Paul Moore
2020-03-24 21:01                                           ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-03-29  3:11                                             ` Paul Moore
2020-03-30 13:47                                               ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-03-30 14:26                                                 ` Paul Moore
2020-03-30 16:21                                                   ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-03-30 17:34                                                     ` Paul Moore
2020-03-30 17:49                                                       ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-03-30 19:55                                                         ` Paul Moore
2020-04-16 20:33                                                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-16 21:53                                                             ` Paul Moore
2020-04-17 22:23                                                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-22 17:24                                                                 ` Paul Moore
2020-06-08 18:03                                                                   ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-06-17 21:33                                                                     ` Paul Moore
2020-06-19 15:22                                                                 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-03-12 20:27                     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-03-13 16:42                       ` Paul Moore
2020-03-13 16:45                         ` Steve Grubb
2020-03-13 16:49                           ` Paul Moore
2020-03-13 19:23                         ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-03-18 21:01                           ` Paul Moore
2020-03-18 21:41                             ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-03-18 21:47                               ` Paul Moore
2020-03-19 21:47                                 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-03-20 21:56                                   ` Paul Moore
2020-03-25 12:29                                     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-03-29  3:17                                       ` Paul Moore
2020-03-30 15:23                                         ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-12-31 19:48 ` [PATCH ghak90 V8 08/16] audit: add support for non-syscall auxiliary records Richard Guy Briggs
2019-12-31 19:48 ` [PATCH ghak90 V8 09/16] audit: add containerid support for user records Richard Guy Briggs
2019-12-31 19:48 ` [PATCH ghak90 V8 10/16] audit: add containerid filtering Richard Guy Briggs
2019-12-31 19:48 ` [PATCH ghak90 V8 11/16] audit: add support for containerid to network namespaces Richard Guy Briggs
2020-01-22 21:28   ` Paul Moore
2020-02-04 23:42     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-02-05 22:51       ` Paul Moore
2019-12-31 19:48 ` [PATCH ghak90 V8 12/16] audit: contid check descendancy and nesting Richard Guy Briggs
2020-01-22 21:29   ` Paul Moore
2020-01-23 21:02     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-01-23 21:47       ` Paul Moore
2019-12-31 19:48 ` [PATCH ghak90 V8 13/16] audit: track container nesting Richard Guy Briggs
2020-01-22 21:29   ` Paul Moore
2020-01-30 19:27     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-02-05 23:05       ` Paul Moore
2020-02-05 23:50         ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-02-13 21:49           ` Paul Moore
2020-03-12 20:51             ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-03-13 16:47               ` Paul Moore
2020-03-14 22:42                 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-03-17 18:28                   ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-03-18 21:08                   ` Paul Moore
2020-01-31 14:50     ` Steve Grubb
2020-02-04 13:19       ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-02-04 15:47         ` Steve Grubb
2020-02-04 15:52           ` Paul Moore
2020-02-04 18:12             ` Steve Grubb
2020-02-05 22:57               ` Paul Moore
2019-12-31 19:48 ` [PATCH ghak90 V8 14/16] audit: check contid depth and add limit config param Richard Guy Briggs
2020-01-22 21:29   ` Paul Moore
2019-12-31 19:48 ` [PATCH ghak90 V8 15/16] audit: check contid count per netns and add config param limit Richard Guy Briggs
2020-01-22 21:29   ` Paul Moore
2019-12-31 19:48 ` [PATCH ghak90 V8 16/16] audit: add capcontid to set contid outside init_user_ns Richard Guy Briggs
2020-01-22 21:29   ` Paul Moore
2020-02-05  0:39     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-02-05 22:56       ` Paul Moore
2020-02-06 12:51         ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-02-13 21:58           ` Paul Moore
2020-03-12 21:58             ` Richard Guy Briggs

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