Re: [PATCH bpf-next v1] bpf: Include pid, uid and comm in audit output

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On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 10:11 PM Dave Tucker <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
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> > On 14 Dec 2023, at 13:21, Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 9:13 PM Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 8:07 PM Dave Tucker <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Current output from auditd is as follows:
> >>>
> >>> time->Wed Dec 13 21:39:24 2023
> >>> type=BPF msg=audit(1702503564.519:11241): prog-id=439 op=LOAD
> >>>
> >>> This only tells you that a BPF program was loaded, but without
> >>> any context. If we include the pid, uid and comm we get output as
> >>> follows:
> >>>
> >>> time->Wed Dec 13 21:59:59 2023
> >>> type=BPF msg=audit(1702504799.156:99528): pid=27279 uid=0
> >>>        comm="new_name" prog-id=50092 op=UNLOAD
> >>
> >> Is it possible to integrate these common details like pid, uid, and
> >> comm into the audit_log_format() function for automatic inclusion? Or
> >> would it be more appropriate to create a new helper function like
> >> audit_log_format_common() dedicated specifically to incorporating
> >> these common details? What are your thoughts on this?
>
> There's audit_log_task_info from audit.h which adds everything. My
> concern was that it is very verbose and doesn’t appear to be widely
> used. I don’t think it warrants a helper function just yet since
> we’re only doing audit logging in this one function.
>
> That said, I’m working on a patch series to add audit logging to
> bpf_link attach and detach events. I’ll gladly turn that into a
> helper then since it would be used in more than one place.
>
> > BTW, bpf prog can be unloaded in irq context. Therefore we can't do it
> > for BPF_AUDIT_UNLOAD.
>
> I’ve been running this locally, and occasionally I see unload events
> where the comm is “kworker/0:0” - I assume that those are from within
> the irq context.
>
> type=BPF msg=audit(1702504511.397:202): pid=1 uid=0
>     comm="systemd" prog-id=75 op=LOAD
>
> type=BPF msg=audit(1702504541.516:213): pid=23152 uid=0
>     comm="kworker/0:0" prog-id=75 op=UNLOAD
>
> That looks ok to me, but it wouldn’t be too hard to skip adding this
> information in the irq context if you’d rather.

I believe we need to skip them. Including random task information
could potentially lead to confusion.

-- 
Regards
Yafang





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