Re: [PATCH v7 1/1] audit: Record fanotify access control decisions

Hello,

On Mon 02-10-17 20:21:39, Steve Grubb wrote:

The fanotify interface allows user space daemons to make access
control decisions. Under common criteria requirements, we need to
optionally record decisions based on policy. This patch adds a bit mask,
FAN_AUDIT, that a user space daemon can 'or' into the response decision
which will tell the kernel that it made a decision and record it.

It would be used something like this in user space code:

  response.response = FAN_DENY | FAN_AUDIT;
  write(fd, &response, sizeof(struct fanotify_response));

When the syscall ends, the audit system will record the decision as a
AUDIT_FANOTIFY auxiliary record to denote that the reason this event
occurred is the result of an access control decision from fanotify
rather than DAC or MAC policy.

A sample event looks like this:

type=PATH msg=audit(1504310584.332:290): item=0 name="./evil-ls"
inode=1319561 dev=fc:03 mode=0100755 ouid=1000 ogid=1000 rdev=00:00
obj=unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 nametype=NORMAL
type=CWD msg=audit(1504310584.332:290): cwd="/home/sgrubb"
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1504310584.332:290): arch=c000003e syscall=2
success=no exit=-1 a0=32cb3fca90 a1=0 a2=43 a3=8 items=1 ppid=901
pid=959 auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 euid=1000 suid=1000
fsuid=1000 egid=1000 sgid=1000 fsgid=1000 tty=pts1 ses=3 comm="bash"
exe="/usr/bin/bash" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:
s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
type=FANOTIFY msg=audit(1504310584.332:290): resp=2

Prior to using the audit flag, the developer needs to call
fanotify_init or'ing in FAN_ENABLE_AUDIT to ensure that the kernel
supports auditing. The calling process must also have the CAP_AUDIT_WRITE
capability.

* v5 remove ifdef around code block and == 0 from boolean check

* v6 update adds empty inline audit_fanotify function for when
CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is not defined.

* v7 rename audit_enabled variable to "audit" to avoid symbol collision

Signed-off-by: sgrubb <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <redacted>

The patch looks good to me from fanotify side and I'll take your word that
this is how things should work from the audit side :). I've added the patch
to my tree.

								Honza
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Jan Kara [off-list ref]
SUSE Labs, CR