On 01/13/2014 08:44 PM, Casey Schaufler wrote:
On 1/13/2014 12:01 AM, Jan Kaluza wrote:
Hi,
this patchset against net-next (applies also to linux-next) adds 3 new types
of "Socket"-level control message (SCM_AUDIT, SCM_PROCINFO and SCM_CGROUP).
How about the group list, while you're at it?
That would be of course possible, but I would rather start with these
three patches at the beginning before adding more features, because I'm
not sure if there is consensus on accepting them. But I have no problem
with introducing group list later.
Server-like processes in many cases need credentials and other
metadata of the peer, to decide if the calling process is allowed to
request a specific action, or the server just wants to log away this
type of information for auditing tasks.
The current practice to retrieve such process metadata is to look that
information up in procfs with the $PID received over SCM_CREDENTIALS.
This is sufficient for long-running tasks, but introduces a race which
cannot be worked around for short-living processes; the calling
process and all the information in /proc/$PID/ is gone before the
receiver of the socket message can look it up.
Changes introduced in this patchset can also increase performance
of such server-like processes, because current way of opening and
parsing /proc/$PID/* files is much more expensive than receiving these
metadata using SCM.
Changes in v4:
- Rebased to work with the latest net-next tree
Changes in v3:
- Better description of patches (Thanks to Kay Sievers)
Changes in v2:
- use PATH_MAX instead of PAGE_SIZE in SCM_CGROUP patch
- describe each patch individually
Jan Kaluza (3):
Send loginuid and sessionid in SCM_AUDIT
Send comm and cmdline in SCM_PROCINFO
Send cgroup_path in SCM_CGROUP
include/linux/socket.h | 9 ++++++
include/net/af_unix.h | 10 ++++++
include/net/scm.h | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
net/core/scm.c | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
net/unix/af_unix.c | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 237 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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