Commit c72051d577 ("audit: use ktime_get_coarse_ts64() for time
access") converted audit's use of current_kernel_time64() to the
new ktime_get_coarse_ts64() function. Unfortunately this resulted
in incorrect timestamps, e.g. events stamped with the year 1969
despite it being 2018. This patch corrects this by using
ktime_get_coarse_real_ts64() just like the current_kernel_time64()
wrapper.
Fixes: c72051d577 ("audit: use ktime_get_coarse_ts64() for time access")
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
The API got renamed for consistency with the other time accessors,
this changes the audit caller as well.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
The AUDIT_FILTER_TYPE name is vague and misleading due to not describing
where or when the filter is applied and obsolete due to its available
filter fields having been expanded.
Userspace has already renamed it from AUDIT_FILTER_TYPE to
AUDIT_FILTER_EXCLUDE without checking if it already exists. The
userspace maintainer assures that as long as it is set to the same value
it will not be a problem since the userspace code does not treat
compiler warnings as errors. If this policy changes then checks if it
already exists can be added at the same time.
See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/89
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Recognizing that the audit context is an internal audit value, use an
access function to retrieve the audit context pointer for the task
rather than reaching directly into the task struct to get it.
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
[PM: merge fuzz in auditsc.c and selinuxfs.c, checkpatch.pl fixes]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:
"We didn't have anything to send for v4.16, but we're back with a
little more than usual for v4.17.
Eleven patches in total, most fall into the small fix category, but
there are three non-trivial changes worth calling out:
- the audit entry filter is being removed after deprecating it for
quite a while (years of no one really using it because it turns out
to be not very practical)
- created our own version of "__mutex_owner()" because the locking
folks were upset we were using theirs
- improved our handling of kernel command line parameters to make
them more forgiving
- we fixed auditing of symlink operations
Everything passes the audit-testsuite and as of a few minutes ago it
merges well with your tree"
* tag 'audit-pr-20180403' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit:
audit: add refused symlink to audit_names
audit: remove path param from link denied function
audit: link denied should not directly generate PATH record
audit: make ANOM_LINK obey audit_enabled and audit_dummy_context
audit: do not panic on invalid boot parameter
audit: track the owner of the command mutex ourselves
audit: return on memory error to avoid null pointer dereference
audit: bail before bug check if audit disabled
audit: deprecate the AUDIT_FILTER_ENTRY filter
audit: session ID should not set arch quick field pointer
audit: update bugtracker and source URIs
In commit 45b578fe4c
("audit: link denied should not directly generate PATH record")
the need for the struct path *link parameter was removed.
Remove the now useless struct path argument.
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Audit link denied events generate duplicate PATH records which disagree
in different ways from symlink and hardlink denials.
audit_log_link_denied() should not directly generate PATH records.
See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/21
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
If you pass in an invalid audit boot parameter value, e.g. "audit=off",
the kernel panics very early in boot before the regular console is
initialized. Unless you have earlyprintk enabled, there is no
indication of what the problem is on the console.
Convert the panic() calls to pr_err(), and leave auditing enabled if an
invalid parameter value was passed in.
Modify the parameter to also accept "on" or "off" as valid values, and
update the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Greg Edwards <gedwards@ddn.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Evidently the __mutex_owner() function was never intended for use
outside the core mutex code, so build a thing locking wrapper around
the mutex code which allows us to track the mutex owner.
One, arguably positive, side effect is that this allows us to hide
the audit_cmd_mutex inside of kernel/audit.c behind the lock/unlock
functions.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
If there is a memory allocation error when trying to change an audit
kernel feature value, the ignored allocation error will trigger a NULL
pointer dereference oops on subsequent use of that pointer. Return
instead.
Passes audit-testsuite.
See: https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/76
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
[PM: not necessary (other funcs check for NULL), but a good practice]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Since the Linux Audit project has transitioned completely over to
github, update the MAINTAINERS file and the primary audit source file to
reflect that reality.
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
The function audit_log_secctx() is unused in the upstream kernel.
All it does is wrap another function that doesn't need wrapping.
It claims to give you the SELinux context, but that is not true if
you are using a different security module.
Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Use audit_set_enabled() to enable auditing during early boot. This
obviously won't emit an audit change record, but it will work anyway
and should help prevent in future problems by consolidating the
enable/disable code in one function.
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
We were treating it as a boolean, let's make it a boolean to help
avoid future mistakes.
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
The simple_strtol() function is deprecated, use kstrtol() instead.
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
We can't initialize the audit subsystem until after the network layer
is initialized (core_initcall), but do it soon after.
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Prior to this patch we enabled audit in audit_init(), which is too
late for PID 1 as the standard initcalls are run after the PID 1 task
is forked. This means that we never allocate an audit_context (see
audit_alloc()) for PID 1 and therefore miss a lot of audit events
generated by PID 1.
This patch enables audit as early as possible to help ensure that when
PID 1 is forked it can allocate an audit_context if required.
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Commit 2115bb250f ("audit: Use timespec64 to represent audit timestamps")
noted that audit timestamps were not y2038 safe and used a 64-bit
timestamp. In itself, this makes sense but the conversion was from
CURRENT_TIME to ktime_get_real_ts64() which is a heavier call to record
an accurate timestamp which is required in some, but not all, cases. The
impact is that when auditd is running without any rules that all syscalls
have higher overhead. This is visible in the sysbench-thread benchmark as
a 11.5% performance hit. That benchmark is dumb as rocks but it's also
visible in redis as an 8-10% hit on all operations which is of greater
concern. It is somewhat stupid of audit to track syscalls without any
rules related to syscalls but that is how it behaves.
The overhead can be directly measured with perf comparing 4.9 with 4.12
4.9
7.76% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __schedule
7.62% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] _raw_spin_lock
7.37% sysbench libpthread-2.22.so [.] __lll_lock_elision
7.29% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [.] syscall_return_via_sysret
6.59% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_sched_clock
5.21% sysbench libc-2.22.so [.] __sched_yield
4.38% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] entry_SYSCALL_64
4.28% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] do_syscall_64
3.49% sysbench libpthread-2.22.so [.] __lll_unlock_elision
3.13% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __audit_syscall_exit
2.87% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] update_curr
2.73% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] pick_next_task_fair
2.31% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] syscall_trace_enter
2.20% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __audit_syscall_entry
.....
0.00% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] read_tsc
4.12
7.84% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __schedule
7.05% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] _raw_spin_lock
6.57% sysbench libpthread-2.22.so [.] __lll_lock_elision
6.50% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [.] syscall_return_via_sysret
5.95% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] read_tsc
5.71% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] native_sched_clock
4.78% sysbench libc-2.22.so [.] __sched_yield
4.30% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] entry_SYSCALL_64
3.94% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] do_syscall_64
3.37% sysbench libpthread-2.22.so [.] __lll_unlock_elision
3.32% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __audit_syscall_exit
2.91% sysbench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __getnstimeofday64
Note the additional overhead from read_tsc which goes from 0% to 5.95%.
This is on a single-socket E3-1230 but similar overheads have been measured
on an older machine which the patch also eliminates.
The patch in question has no explanation as to why a fully-accurate timestamp
is required and is likely an oversight. Using a coarser, but monotically
increasing, timestamp the overhead can be eliminated. While it can be
worked around by configuring or disabling audit, it's tricky enough to
detect that a kernel fix is justified. With this patch, we see the following;
sysbenchthread
4.9.0 4.12.0 4.12.0
vanilla vanilla coarse-v1r1
Amean 1 1.49 ( 0.00%) 1.66 ( -11.42%) 1.51 ( -1.34%)
Amean 3 1.48 ( 0.00%) 1.65 ( -11.45%) 1.50 ( -0.96%)
Amean 5 1.49 ( 0.00%) 1.67 ( -12.31%) 1.51 ( -1.83%)
Amean 7 1.49 ( 0.00%) 1.66 ( -11.72%) 1.50 ( -0.67%)
Amean 12 1.48 ( 0.00%) 1.65 ( -11.57%) 1.52 ( -2.89%)
Amean 16 1.49 ( 0.00%) 1.65 ( -11.13%) 1.51 ( -1.73%)
The benchmark is reporting the time required for different thread counts to
lock/unlock a private mutex which, while dense, demonstrates the syscall
overhead. This is showing that 4.12 took a 11-12% hit but the overhead is
almost eliminated by the patch. While the variance is not reported here,
it's well within the noise with the patch applied.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Pull audit fix from Paul Moore:
"A small audit fix, just a single line, to plug a memory leak in some
audit error handling code"
* 'stable-4.13' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit:
audit: fix memleak in auditd_send_unicast_skb.
