On 2/2/2018 3:24 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 5:19 PM, Simo Sorce <simo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, 2018-02-02 at 16:24 -0500, Paul Moore wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 2:00 AM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On 2018-01-09 11:18, Simo Sorce wrote: >>>>> On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 07:16 -0500, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > .. > >>>> Paul, can you justify this somewhat larger inconvenience for some >>>> relatively minor convenience on our part? >>> Done in direct response to Simo. >> Sorry but your response sounds more like waving away then addressing >> them, the excuse being: we can't please everyone, so we are going to >> please no one. > I obviously disagree with the take on my comments but you're free to > your opinion. > > I believe saying we are pleasing no one isn't really fair now is it? > Is there any type of audit container ID now? How would you go about > associating audit events with containers now? (spoiler alert: it ain't > pretty, and there are gaps I don't believe you can cover) This > proposal provides a mechanism to do this in a way that isn't tied to > any one particular concept of a container and is manageable inside the > kernel. > > If you have a need to track audit events for containers, I find it > extremely hard to believe that you are not at least partially pleased > by the solutions presented here. It may not be everything on your > wishlist, but when did you ever get *everything* on your wishlist? I am going to back Paul 100% on this point. The container community's emphatic position that containers are strictly a user-space construct makes it impossible for the kernel to provide any data more sophisticated than an integer, and any processing based on that data cleverer than a check for equality. >>> But to be clear Richard, we've talked about this a few times, it's not >>> a "minor convenience" on our part, it's a pretty big convenience once >>> we starting having to route audit events and make decisions based on >>> the audit container ID information. Audit performance is less than >>> awesome now, I'm working hard to not make it worse. >> Sounds like a security vs performance trade off to me. Without the kernel having a "container" policy to work with there is no "security" it can possibly enforce. > Welcome to software development. It's generally a pretty terrible > hobby and/or occupation, but we make up for it with long hours and > endless frustration. > >>>> u64 vs u128 is easy for us to >>>> accomodate in terms of scalar comparisons. It doubles the information >>>> in every container id field we print in audit records. >>> ... and slows down audit container ID checks. >> Are you saying a cmp on a u128 is slower than a comparison on a u64 and >> this is something that will be noticeable ? > Do you have a 128 bit system? I don't. I've got a bunch of 64 bit > systems, and a couple of 32 bit systems too. People that use audit > have a tendency to really hammer on it, to the point that we get > performance complaints on a not infrequent basis. I don't know the > exact number of times we are going to need to check the audit > container ID, but it's reasonable to think that we'll expose it as a > filter-able field which adds a few checks, we'll use it for record > routing so that's a few more, and if we're running multiple audit > daemons we will probably want to include LSM checks which could result > in a few more audit container ID checks. If it was one comparison I > wouldn't be too worried about it, but the point I'm trying to make is > that we don't know what the implementation is going to look like yet > and I suspect this ID is going to be leveraged in several places in > the audit subsystem and I would much rather start small to save > headaches later. > > We can always expand the ID to a larger integer at a later date, but > we can't make it smaller. > >>>> A c36 is a bigger step. >>> Yeah, we're not doing that, no way. >> Ok, I can see your point though I do not agree with it. >> >> I can see why you do not want to have arbitrary length strings, but a >> u128 sounded like a reasonable compromise to me as it has enough room >> to be able to have unique cluster-wide IDs which a u64 definitely makes >> a lot harder to provide w/o tight coordination. > I originally wanted it to be a 32-bit integer, but Richard managed to > talk me into 64-bits, that was my compromise :) > > As I said earlier, if you are doing container auditing you're going to > need coordination with the orchestrator, regardless of the audit > container ID size. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
