Re: [PATCH ghak90 (was ghak32) V4 03/10] audit: log container info of syscalls

Paul Moore
2018-10-28T07:53:44Z

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 4:13 AM Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> wrote:
> On 10/25/2018 2:55 PM, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > ...
> > And historically speaking setting audit loginuid produces a LOGIN
> > event, so it only makes sense to consider binding container ID to
> > container as a CONTAINER event. For other supplemental records, we name
> > things what they are: PATH, CWD, SOCKADDR, etc. So, CONTAINER_ID makes
> > sense. CONTAINER_OP sounds like its for operations on a container. Do
> > we have any operations on a container?
>
> The answer has to be "no", because containers are, by emphatic assertion,
> not kernel constructs. Any CONTAINER_OP event has to come from user space.
> I think.

It is very important that we do not confuse operations on the audit
container id with operations on the containers themselves. Of course
at a higher level, e.g. audit log analysis, we want to equate the two,
and if the container runtime which manages the audit container id is
sane that should be a reasonable assumption, but in this particular
patchset AUDIT_CONTAINER_OP is referring to operations involving just
the audit container id.

If there is a need for additional container operation auditing (note
well that I did not say audit container id here) then those audit
records can, and should, be generated by the container runtime itself,
similar to what we do with libvirt for virtualization.

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paul moore