[PATCH v3 0/4] Better integrate seccomp logging and auditing

[keescook@chromium.org (Kees Cook)]

On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 9:08 PM, Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> wrote:
>> Seccomp received improved logging controls in v4.14. Applications can opt into
>> logging of "handled" actions (SECCOMP_RET_TRAP, SECCOMP_RET_TRACE,
>> SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO) using the SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_LOG bit when loading filters.
>> They can also debug filter matching with the new SECCOMP_RET_LOG action.
>> Administrators can prevent specific actions from being logged using the
>> kernel.seccomp.actions_logged sysctl.
>>
>> However, one corner case intentionally wasn't addressed in those v4.14 changes.
>> When a process is being inspected by the audit subsystem, seccomp's decision
>> making for logging ignores the new controls and unconditionally logs every
>> action taken except for SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW. This isn't particularly useful since
>> many existing applications don't intend to log handled actions due to them
>> occurring very frequently. This amount of logging fills the audit logs without
>> providing many benefits now that application authors have fine grained controls
>> at their disposal.
>>
>> This patch set aligns the seccomp logging behavior for both audited and
>> non-audited processes. It also emits an audit record, if auditing is enabled,
>> when the kernel.seccomp.actions_logged sysctl is written to so that there's a
>> paper trail when entire actions are quieted.
>>
>> Changes in v3:
>> * Patch 3
>>   - Never drop a field when emitting the audit record
>>   - Use the value "?" for the actions field when an error occurred while
>>     writing to the sysctl
>>   - Use the value "?" for the actions and/or old-actions fields when a failure
>>     to translate actions to names
>>   - Use the value "(none)" for the actions and/or old-actions fields when no
>>     actions are specified
>>     + This is possible when writing an empty string to the sysctl
>>   - Update the commit message to note the new values and give an example of
>>     when an empty string is written
>> * Patch 4
>>   - Adjust the control flow of seccomp_log() to exit early if nothing should be
>>     logged
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> * Patch 2
>>   - New patch, allowing for a configurable separator between action names
>> * Patch 3
>>   - The value of the actions field in the audit record now uses a comma instead
>>     of a space
>>   - The value of the actions field in the audit record is no longer enclosed in
>>     quotes
>>   - audit_log_start() is called with the current processes' audit_context in
>>     audit_seccomp_actions_logged()
>>   - audit_seccomp_actions_logged() no longer records the pid, uid, auid, tty,
>>     ses, task context, comm, or executable path
>>   - The new and old value of seccomp_actions_logged is recorded in the
>>     AUDIT_CONFIG_CHANGE record
>>   - The value of the "res" field in the CONFIG_CHANGE audit record is corrected
>>     (1 indicates success, 0 failure)
>>   - Updated patch 3's commit message to reflect the updated audit record format
>>     in the examples
>> * Patch 4
>>   - A function comment for audit_seccomp() was added to explain, among other
>>     things, that event filtering is performed in seccomp_log()
>
> Kees, are you still okay with v3?  Also, are you okay with these
> patches going in via the audit tree, or would you prefer to take them
> via seccomp?  I've got a slight preference for the audit tree myself,
> but as I said before, as long as it hits Linus' tree I'm happy.

Yup, it looks good. I have no tree preference, so you win! :) Please
consider the whole series:

Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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