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SubjectRe: [PATCH ghak46 V1] audit: normalize MAC_STATUS record
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 5:08 PM, Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 7:34 PM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> wrote:
>> There were two formats of the audit MAC_STATUS record, one of which was more
>> standard than the other. One listed enforcing status changes and the
>> other listed enabled status changes with a non-standard label. In
>> addition, the record was missing information about which LSM was
>> responsible and the operation's completion status. While this record is
>> only issued on success, the parser expects the res= field to be present.
>>
>> old enforcing/permissive:
>> type=MAC_STATUS msg=audit(1523312831.378:24514): enforcing=0 old_enforcing=1 auid=0 ses=1
>> old enable/disable:
>> type=MAC_STATUS msg=audit(1523312831.378:24514): selinux=0 auid=0 ses=1
>>
>> List both sets of status and old values and add the lsm= field and the
>> res= field.
>>
>> Here is the new format:
>> type=MAC_STATUS msg=audit(1523293828.657:891): enforcing=0 old_enforcing=1 auid=0 ses=1 enabled=1 old-enabled=1 lsm=selinux res=1
>>
>> This record already accompanied a SYSCALL record.
>>
>> See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/46
>> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 11 +++++++----
>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
>> index 00eed84..00b21b2 100644
>> --- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
>> +++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
>> @@ -145,10 +145,11 @@ static ssize_t sel_write_enforce(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
>> if (length)
>> goto out;
>> audit_log(current->audit_context, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_MAC_STATUS,
>> - "enforcing=%d old_enforcing=%d auid=%u ses=%u",
>> + "enforcing=%d old_enforcing=%d auid=%u ses=%u"
>> + " enabled=%d old-enabled=%d lsm=selinux res=1",
>> new_value, selinux_enforcing,
>> from_kuid(&init_user_ns, audit_get_loginuid(current)),
>> - audit_get_sessionid(current));
>> + audit_get_sessionid(current), selinux_enabled, selinux_enabled);
>
> This looks fine.
>
>> selinux_enforcing = new_value;
>> if (selinux_enforcing)
>> avc_ss_reset(0);
>> @@ -272,9 +273,11 @@ static ssize_t sel_write_disable(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
>> if (length)
>> goto out;
>> audit_log(current->audit_context, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_MAC_STATUS,
>> - "selinux=0 auid=%u ses=%u",
>> + "enforcing=%d old_enforcing=%d auid=%u ses=%u"
>> + " enabled=%d old-enabled=%d lsm=selinux res=1",
>> + selinux_enforcing, selinux_enforcing,
>> from_kuid(&init_user_ns, audit_get_loginuid(current)),
>> - audit_get_sessionid(current));
>> + audit_get_sessionid(current), 0, 1);
>
> It needs to be said again that I'm opposed to changes like this:
> inserting new fields, removing fields, or otherwise changing the
> format in ways that aren't strictly the addition of new fields to the
> end of a record is a Bad Thing. However, there are exceptions (there
> are *always* exceptions), and this seems like a reasonable change that
> shouldn't negatively affect anyone.
>
> I'll merge this once the merge window comes to a close (we are going
> to need to base selinux/next on v4.17-rc1).

Merged into selinux/next, although I should mention that there were
some actual code changes because of the SELinux state consolidation
patches that went into v4.17. The changes were small but please take
a look and make sure everything still looks okay to you.

>> }
>>
>> length = count;
>> --
>> 1.8.3.1

--
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com

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