Re: [PATCH RFC 00/48] Add namespace support for audit

[Eric Paris <eparis-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

What kernel are these patches against?


On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 10:20 +0800, Gao feng wrote:
> This patchset try to add namespace support for audit.
> 
> I choose to assign audit to the user namespace.
> Right now,there are six kinds of namespaces, such as
> net, mount, ipc, pid, uts and user. the first five
> namespaces have special usage. the audit isn't suitable to
> belong to these five namespaces, so the user namespace
> may be the best choice.
> 
> Through I decide to make audit related resources per user
> namespace, but audit uses netlink to communicate between kernel
> space and user space, and the netlink is a private resource
> of per net namespace. So we need the capability to allow the
> netlink sockets to communicate with each other in the same user
> namespace even they are in different net namespace. [PATCH 2/48]
> does this job, it adds a new function "compare" for per netlink
> table to compare two sockets. it means the netlink protocols can
> has its own compare fuction, For other protocols, two netlink
> sockets are different if they belong to the different net namespace.
> For audit protocol, two sockets can be the same even they in different
> net namespace,we use user namespace not net namespace to make the
> decision.
> 
> There is one point that some people may dislike,in [PATCH 1/48],
> the kernel side audit netlink socket is created only when we create
> the first netns for the userns, and this userns will hold the netns
> until we destroy this userns.
> 
> The other patches just make the audit related resources per
> user namespace.
> 
> This patchset is sent as an RFC,any comments are welcome.
> 
> Gao feng (48):
>   Audit: make audit kernel side netlink sock per userns
>   netlink: Add compare function for netlink_table
>   Audit: implement audit self-defined compare function
>   Audit: make audit_skb_queue per user namespace
>   Audit: make audit_skb_hold_queue per user namespace
>   Audit: make kauditd_task per user namespace
>   Audit: make audit_pid per user namespace
>   Audit: make audit_nlk_portid per user namesapce
>   Audit: make audit_enabled per user namespace
>   Audit: change type of audit_ever_enabled to bool
>   Audit: make audit_ever_enabled per user namespace
>   Audit: make audit_initialized per user namespace
>   Audit: only allow init user namespace to change audit_rate_limit
>   Audit: only allow init user namespace to change audit_failure
>   Audit: allow to send netlink message to auditd in uninit user
>     namespace
>   Audit: user proper user namespace in audit_log_config_change
>   Audit: make kauditd_wait per user namespace
>   Audit: make audit_backlog_wait per user namespace
>   Audit: remove duplicate comments
>   Audit: introduce new audit logging interface for user namespace
>   Audit: pass proper user namespace to audit_log_common_recv_msg
>   Audit: Log audit config change in uninit user namespace
>   Audit: netfilter: Log xt table replace behavior in proper user
>     namespace
>   Audit: xt_AUDIT: Log audit message in proper user namespace
>   Audit: send reply message to the auditd in proper user namespace
>   Audit: make audit_inode_hash per user namespace
>   Audit: make tree_list per user namespace
>   Audit: make audit filter list per user namespace
>   Audit: make audit_krule belongs to user namespace
>   Audit: reply audit filter list request to proper user namespace
>   Audit: pass proper user namespace to audit_filter_syscall
>   Audit: pass proper user namespace to audit_filter_inode_name
>   Audit: Log filter related audit message to proper user namespace
>   Log audit tree related message in proper user namespace
>   Audit: Log task related audit message to proper user namespace
>   Audit: Log watch related audit message to proper user namespace
>   Audit: translate audit_log_start to audit_log_start_ns
>   Audit: tty: translate audit_log_start to audit_log_start_ns
>   Audit: netlabel: translate audit_log_start to audit_log_start_ns
>   Audit: ima: translate audit_log_start to audit_log_start_ns
>   Audit: lsm: translate audit_log_start to audit_log_start_ns
>   Audit: selinux: translate audit_log_start to audit_log_start_ns
>   Audit: xfrm: translate audit_log_start to audit_log_start_ns
>   Audit: rename audit_log_start_ns to audit_log_start
>   Audit: user audit_enabled_ns to replace audit_enabled
>   Audit: rename audit_enabled_ns to audit_enabled
>   Audit: make audit_log user namespace awared
>   Audit: allow root user of un-init user namespace to set audit
> 
>  drivers/tty/tty_audit.c             |   9 +-
>  include/linux/audit.h               |  44 ++--
>  include/linux/netlink.h             |   1 +
>  include/linux/user_namespace.h      |  25 +++
>  include/net/xfrm.h                  |   7 +-
>  kernel/audit.c                      | 393 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  kernel/audit.h                      |  24 +--
>  kernel/audit_tree.c                 |  49 ++---
>  kernel/audit_watch.c                |  23 ++-
>  kernel/auditfilter.c                |  76 +++----
>  kernel/auditsc.c                    | 156 ++++++++------
>  kernel/user.c                       |  19 ++
>  kernel/user_namespace.c             |   3 +
>  net/core/dev.c                      |  12 +-
>  net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c               |   4 +-
>  net/netfilter/x_tables.c            |   9 +-
>  net/netfilter/xt_AUDIT.c            |   8 +-
>  net/netlabel/netlabel_domainhash.c  |   4 +-
>  net/netlabel/netlabel_unlabeled.c   |   8 +-
>  net/netlabel/netlabel_user.c        |   8 +-
>  net/netlink/af_netlink.c            |  26 ++-
>  net/netlink/af_netlink.h            |   1 +
>  net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c              |   4 +-
>  net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c               |  14 +-
>  security/apparmor/lib.c             |   2 +-
>  security/integrity/ima/ima_api.c    |   5 +-
>  security/integrity/ima/ima_audit.c  |  11 +-
>  security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c |   5 +-
>  security/lsm_audit.c                |   8 +-
>  security/selinux/avc.c              |   3 +-
>  security/selinux/hooks.c            |  17 +-
>  security/selinux/selinuxfs.c        |   9 +-
>  security/selinux/ss/services.c      |  30 ++-
>  security/smack/smack_lsm.c          |   3 +-
>  34 files changed, 630 insertions(+), 390 deletions(-)
>