On 8/14/20 7:46 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 19:22:13 +0200
> peter enderborg <peter.enderborg@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 8/14/20 7:08 PM, Stephen Smalley wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 1:07 PM peter enderborg
>>> <peter.enderborg@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 8/14/20 6:51 PM, Stephen Smalley wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 9:05 AM Thiébaud Weksteen <tweek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 5:41 PM Stephen Smalley
>>>>>> <stephen.smalley.work@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>> An explanation here of how one might go about decoding audited and
>>>>>>> tclass would be helpful to users (even better would be a script to do it
>>>>>>> for them). Again, I know how to do that but not everyone using
>>>>>>> perf/ftrace will.
>>>>>> What about something along those lines:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The tclass value can be mapped to a class by searching
>>>>>> security/selinux/flask.h. The audited value is a bit field of the
>>>>>> permissions described in security/selinux/av_permissions.h for the
>>>>>> corresponding class.
>>>>> Sure, I guess that works. Would be nice if we just included the class
>>>>> and permission name(s) in the event itself but I guess you viewed that
>>>>> as too heavyweight?
>>>> The class name is added in part 2. Im not sure how a proper format for permission
>>>> would look like in trace terms. It is a list, right?
>>> Yes. See avc_audit_pre_callback() for example code to log the permission names.
>> I wrote about that on some of the previous sets. The problem is that trace format is quite fixed. So it is lists are not
>> that easy to handle if you want to filter in them. You can have a trace event for each of them. You can also add
>> additional trace event "selinux_audied_permission" for each permission. With that you can filter out tclass or permissions.
>>
>> But the basic thing we would like at the moment is a event that we can debug in user space.
> We have a trace_seq p helper, that lets you create strings in
> TP_printk(). I should document this more. Thus you can do:
>
> extern const char *audit_perm_to_name(struct trace_seq *p, u16 class, u32 audited);
> #define __perm_to_name(p, class, audited) audit_perm_to_name(p, class, audited)
>
> TP_printk("tclass=%u audited=%x (%s)",
> __entry->tclass,
> __entry->audited,
> __perm_to_name(__entry->tclass, __entry->audited))
>
>
> const char *audit_perm_to_name(struct trace_seq *p, u16 tclass, u32 av)
> {
> const char *ret = trace_seq_buffer_ptr(p);
> int i, perm;
>
> ( some check for tclass integrity here)
>
> perms = secclass_map[tclass-1].perms;
>
> i = 0;
> perm = 1;
> while (i < (sizeof(av) * 8)) {
> if ((perm & av) && perms[i]) {
> trace_seq_printf(p, " %s", perms[i]);
> av &= ~perm;
> }
> i++;
> perm <<= 1;
> }
>
> return ret;
> }
>
> Note, this wont work for perf and trace-cmd as it wouldn't know how to
> parse it, but if the tclass perms are stable, you could create a plugin
> to libtraceevent that can do the above as well.
>
> -- Steve
Something like:
while (i < (sizeof(av) * 8)) {
if ((perm & av) && perms[i]) {
if (!(perm & avdenied))
trace_seq_printf(p, " %s", perms[i]);
else
trace_seq_printf(p, " !%s", perms[i]);
av &= ~perm;
And you get information about denied too.
