On 4/18/2018 4:47 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 5:00 AM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Implement the proc fs write to set the audit container ID of a process,
>> emitting an AUDIT_CONTAINER record to document the event.
>> ...
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
>> index d258826..1b82191 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
>> @@ -796,6 +796,7 @@ struct task_struct {
>> #ifdef CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL
>> kuid_t loginuid;
>> unsigned int sessionid;
>> + u64 containerid;
> This one line addition to the task_struct scares me the most of
> anything in this patchset. Why? It's a field named "containerid" in
> a perhaps one of the most widely used core kernel structures; the
> possibilities for abuse are endless, and it's foolish to think we
> would ever be able to adequately police this.
If we can get the LSM infrastructure managed task blobs from
module stacking in ahead of this we could create a trivial security
module to manage this. It's not as if there aren't all sorts of
interactions between security modules and the audit system already.
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