[PATCH v2 0/6] Audit: Records for multiple security contexts

Casey Schaufler
2025-03-07T18:47:17Z

The Linux audit system includes LSM based security "context" information
in its events. Historically, only one LSM that uses security contexts can
be active on a system. One of the few obsticles to allowing multiple LSM
support is the inability to report more than one security context in an
audit event. This patchset provides a mechanism to provide supplimental
records containing more than one security context for subjects and
objects.

The mechanism for reporting multiple security contexts inspired
considerable discussion. It would have been possible to add multiple
contexts to existing records using sophisticated formatting. This would
have significant backward compatibility issues, and require additional
parsing in user space code. Adding new records for an event that contain
the contexts is more in keeping with the way audit events have been
constructed in the past.

Only audit events associated with system calls have required multiple
records prior to this. Mechanism has been added allowing any event
to be composed of multiple records. This should make it easier to
add information to existing audit events without breaking backward
compatability.

v2:
Maintain separate counts for LSMs using subject contexts and object
contexts. AppArmor uses the former but not the latter.
Correct error handling in object record creation.

https://github.com/cschaufler/lsm-stacking#audit-records-multiple-contexts-v2

Casey Schaufler (6):
Audit: Create audit_stamp structure
Audit: Allow multiple records in an audit_buffer
LSM: security_lsmblob_to_secctx module selection
Audit: Add record for multiple task security contexts
Audit: multiple subject lsm values for netlabel
Audit: Add record for multiple object contexts

include/linux/audit.h | 13 ++
include/linux/lsm_hooks.h | 4 +
include/linux/security.h | 8 +-
include/uapi/linux/audit.h | 2 +
kernel/audit.c | 235 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
kernel/audit.h | 13 +-
kernel/auditsc.c | 65 +++-------
net/netlabel/netlabel_user.c | 8 +-
security/apparmor/lsm.c | 1 +
security/bpf/hooks.c | 1 +
security/security.c | 19 ++-
security/selinux/hooks.c | 2 +
security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 2 +
13 files changed, 274 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)

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