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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 0/3] fanotify: Allow user space to pass back additional audit info
On Tue 17-01-23 16:14:04, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> The Fanotify API can be used for access control by requesting permission
> event notification. The user space tooling that uses it may have a
> complicated policy that inherently contains additional context for the
> decision. If this information were available in the audit trail, policy
> writers can close the loop on debugging policy. Also, if this additional
> information were available, it would enable the creation of tools that
> can suggest changes to the policy similar to how audit2allow can help
> refine labeled security.
>
> This patchset defines a new flag (FAN_INFO) and new extensions that
> define additional information which are appended after the response
> structure returned from user space on a permission event. The appended
> information is organized with headers containing a type and size that
> can be delegated to interested subsystems. One new information type is
> defined to audit the triggering rule number.
>
> A newer kernel will work with an older userspace and an older kernel
> will behave as expected and reject a newer userspace, leaving it up to
> the newer userspace to test appropriately and adapt as necessary. This
> is done by providing a a fully-formed FAN_INFO extension but setting the
> fd to FAN_NOFD. On a capable kernel, it will succeed but issue no audit
> record, whereas on an older kernel it will fail.
>
> The audit function was updated to log the additional information in the
> AUDIT_FANOTIFY record. The following are examples of the new record
> format:
> type=FANOTIFY msg=audit(1600385147.372:590): resp=2 fan_type=1 fan_info=3137 subj_trust=3 obj_trust=5
> type=FANOTIFY msg=audit(1659730979.839:284): resp=1 fan_type=0 fan_info=3F subj_trust=? obj_trust=?

Everything looks fine to me in this patchset so once patch 3/3 gets ack
from audit guys, I'll merge the series to my tree. Thanks for your work!

Honza

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Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

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