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From: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
To: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux-Audit Mailing List <linux-audit@redhat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	sgrubb@redhat.com, omosnace@redhat.com, dhowells@redhat.com,
	simo@redhat.com, Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com,
	Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>,
	mpatel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH ghak90 V7 20/21] audit: add capcontid to set contid outside init_user_ns
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:27:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHC9VhRDoX9du4XbCnBtBzsNPMGOsb-TKM1CC+sCL7HP=FuTRQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191024210010.owwgc3bqbvtdsqws@madcap2.tricolour.ca>

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 5:00 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> wrote:
> Here's the note I had from that meeting:
>
> - Eric raised the issue that using /proc is likely to get more and more
>   hoary due to mount namespaces and suggested that we use a netlink
> audit message (or a new syscall) to set the audit container identifier
> and since the loginuid is a similar type of operation, that it should be
> migrated over to a similar mechanism to get it away from /proc.  Get
> could be done with a netlink audit message that triggers an audit log
> message to deliver the information.  I'm reluctant to further pollute
> the syscall space if we can find another method.  The netlink audit
> message makes sense since any audit-enabled service is likely to already
> have an audit socket open.

Thanks for the background info on the off-list meeting.  I would
encourage you to have discussions like this on-list in the future; if
that isn't possible, hosting a public call would okay-ish, but a
distant second.

At this point in time I'm not overly concerned about /proc completely
going away in namespaces/containers that are full featured enough to
host a container orchestrator.  If/when reliance on procfs becomes an
issue, we can look at alternate APIs, but given the importance of
/proc to userspace (including to audit) I suspect we are going to see
it persist for some time.  I would prefer to see you to drop the audit
container ID netlink API portions of this patchset and focus on the
procfs API.

Also, for the record, removing the audit loginuid from procfs is not
something to take lightly, if at all; like it or not, it's part of the
kernel API.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-30 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-19  1:22 [PATCH ghak90 V7 00/21] audit: implement container identifier Richard Guy Briggs
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 01/21] audit: collect audit task parameters Richard Guy Briggs
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 02/21] audit: add container id Richard Guy Briggs
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 03/21] audit: read container ID of a process Richard Guy Briggs
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 04/21] audit: convert to contid list to check for orch/engine ownership Richard Guy Briggs
2019-09-26 14:46   ` Neil Horman
2019-10-25 20:00     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-28 12:20       ` Neil Horman
2019-10-11  0:38   ` Paul Moore
2019-10-25 21:00     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-11-08 18:26       ` Paul Moore
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 05/21] audit: log drop of contid on exit of last task Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-11  0:38   ` Paul Moore
2019-10-25 19:43     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 06/21] audit: contid limit of 32k imposed to avoid DoS Richard Guy Briggs
2019-09-27 12:51   ` Neil Horman
2019-10-11  0:38     ` Paul Moore
2019-10-24 21:23       ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-11-08 17:49         ` Paul Moore
2019-12-17 18:45           ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-12-17 19:25             ` Steve Grubb
2019-12-17 19:56               ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-25 20:15     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 07/21] audit: log container info of syscalls Richard Guy Briggs
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 08/21] audit: add contid support for signalling the audit daemon Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-11  0:39   ` Paul Moore
2019-10-25 19:20     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-11-08 17:41       ` Paul Moore
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 09/21] audit: add support for non-syscall auxiliary records Richard Guy Briggs
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 10/21] audit: add containerid support for user records Richard Guy Briggs
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 11/21] audit: add containerid filtering Richard Guy Briggs
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 12/21] audit: add support for containerid to network namespaces Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-11  0:39   ` Paul Moore
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 13/21] audit: NETFILTER_PKT: record each container ID associated with a netNS Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-11  0:39   ` Paul Moore
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 14/21] audit: contid check descendancy and nesting Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-11  0:40   ` Paul Moore
2019-10-24 22:08     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-30 20:32       ` Paul Moore
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 15/21] sched: pull task_is_descendant into kernel/sched/core.c Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-11  0:40   ` Paul Moore
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 16/21] audit: add support for contid set/get by netlink Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-11  0:40   ` Paul Moore
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 17/21] audit: add support for loginuid/sessionid " Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-11  0:40   ` Paul Moore
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 18/21] audit: track container nesting Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-11  0:40   ` Paul Moore
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 19/21] audit: check cont depth Richard Guy Briggs
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 20/21] audit: add capcontid to set contid outside init_user_ns Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-19  1:39   ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-21 19:53     ` Paul Moore
2019-10-21 21:38       ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-21 21:43         ` Paul Moore
2019-10-21 23:57           ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-22  0:31             ` Paul Moore
2019-10-22 12:13               ` Neil Horman
2019-10-22 14:04                 ` Paul Moore
2019-10-22 20:06                 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-22 14:27               ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-22 14:34                 ` Paul Moore
2019-10-24 21:00               ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-30 20:27                 ` Paul Moore [this message]
2019-10-30 22:03                   ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-10-31 13:59                     ` Paul Moore
2019-10-31 14:50                     ` Steve Grubb
2019-10-31 23:37                       ` Paul Moore
2019-11-01  1:02                       ` Duncan Roe
2019-11-01 15:09                       ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-11-01 15:13                         ` Steve Grubb
2019-11-01 15:21                           ` Richard Guy Briggs
2019-11-01 16:22                         ` Paul Moore
2019-09-19  1:22 ` [PATCH ghak90 V7 21/21] audit: add proc interface for capcontid Richard Guy Briggs

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