The audit data currently captures which process and which target
is responsible for a denial. There is no data on where exactly in the
process that call occurred. Debugging can be made easier by being able to
reconstruct the unified kernel and userland stack traces [1]. Add a
tracepoint on the SELinux denials which can then be used by userland
(i.e. perf).
Although this patch could manually be added by each OS developer to
trouble shoot a denial, adding it to the kernel streamlines the
developers workflow.
It is possible to use perf for monitoring the event:
# perf record -e avc:selinux_audited -g -a
^C
# perf report -g
[...]
6.40% 6.40% audited=800000 tclass=4
|
__libc_start_main
|
|--4.60%--__GI___ioctl
| entry_SYSCALL_64
| do_syscall_64
| __x64_sys_ioctl
| ksys_ioctl
| binder_ioctl
| binder_set_nice
| can_nice
| capable
| security_capable
| cred_has_capability.isra.0
| slow_avc_audit
| common_lsm_audit
| avc_audit_post_callback
| avc_audit_post_callback
|
It is also possible to use the ftrace interface:
# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/avc/selinux_audited/enable
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
tracer: nop
entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 1/1 #P:8
[...]
dmesg-3624 [001] 13072.325358: selinux_denied: audited=800000 tclass=4
[1] https://source.android.com/devices/tech/debug/native_stack_dump
Signed-off-by: Thiébaud Weksteen <tweek@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@xxxxxxxx>
---
v2 changes:
- update changelog to include usage examples
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
include/trace/events/avc.h | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
security/selinux/avc.c | 5 +++++
3 files changed, 43 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 include/trace/events/avc.h
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index c8e8232c65da..0efaea0e144c 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -15426,6 +15426,7 @@ T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux.git
F: Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-selinux-checkreqprot
F: Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-selinux-disable
F: Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/SELinux.rst
+F: include/trace/events/avc.h
F: include/uapi/linux/selinux_netlink.h
F: scripts/selinux/
F: security/selinux/
diff --git a/include/trace/events/avc.h b/include/trace/events/avc.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..07c058a9bbcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/trace/events/avc.h
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/*
+ * Author: Thiébaud Weksteen <tweek@xxxxxxxxxx>
+ */
+#undef TRACE_SYSTEM
+#define TRACE_SYSTEM avc
+
+#if !defined(_TRACE_SELINUX_H) || defined(TRACE_HEADER_MULTI_READ)
+#define _TRACE_SELINUX_H
+
+#include <linux/tracepoint.h>
+
+TRACE_EVENT(selinux_audited,
+
+ TP_PROTO(struct selinux_audit_data *sad),
+
+ TP_ARGS(sad),
+
+ TP_STRUCT__entry(
+ __field(unsigned int, tclass)
+ __field(unsigned int, audited)
+ ),
+
+ TP_fast_assign(
+ __entry->tclass = sad->tclass;
+ __entry->audited = sad->audited;
+ ),
+
+ TP_printk("tclass=%u audited=%x",
+ __entry->tclass,
+ __entry->audited)
+);
+
+#endif
+
+/* This part must be outside protection */
+#include <trace/define_trace.h>
diff --git a/security/selinux/avc.c b/security/selinux/avc.c
index d18cb32a242a..b0a0af778b70 100644
--- a/security/selinux/avc.c
+++ b/security/selinux/avc.c
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@
#include "avc_ss.h"
#include "classmap.h"
+#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
+#include <trace/events/avc.h>
+
#define AVC_CACHE_SLOTS 512
#define AVC_DEF_CACHE_THRESHOLD 512
#define AVC_CACHE_RECLAIM 16
@@ -706,6 +709,8 @@ static void avc_audit_post_callback(struct audit_buffer *ab, void *a)
u32 scontext_len;
int rc;
+ trace_selinux_audited(sad);
+
rc = security_sid_to_context(sad->state, sad->ssid, &scontext,
&scontext_len);
if (rc)
--
2.28.0.236.gb10cc79966-goog
