linux/security
Thiébaud Weksteen dd8166212d selinux: add tracepoint on audited events
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

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.

[1] https://source.android.com/devices/tech/debug/native_stack_dump

Signed-off-by: Thiébaud Weksteen <tweek@google.com>
Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@sony.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2020-08-21 17:05:22 -04:00
..
apparmor Minor fixes for v5.9. 2020-08-11 14:30:36 -07:00
bpf bpf: lsm: Initialize the BPF LSM hooks 2020-03-30 01:34:00 +02:00
integrity Minor fixes for v5.9. 2020-08-11 14:30:36 -07:00
keys Minor fixes for v5.9. 2020-08-11 14:30:36 -07:00
loadpin block: move block-related definitions out of fs.h 2020-06-24 09:16:02 -06:00
lockdown Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2020-06-02 17:36:24 -07:00
safesetid security/safesetid: Replace rcu_swap_protected() with rcu_replace_pointer() 2019-10-30 08:45:57 -07:00
selinux selinux: add tracepoint on audited events 2020-08-21 17:05:22 -04:00
smack Smack: prevent underflow in smk_set_cipso() 2020-07-27 13:35:12 -07:00
tomoyo mm/gup: remove task_struct pointer for all gup code 2020-08-12 10:58:04 -07:00
yama sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler 2020-04-27 02:07:40 -04:00
commoncap.c exec: Compute file based creds only once 2020-05-29 22:00:54 -05:00
device_cgroup.c device_cgroup: Cleanup cgroup eBPF device filter code 2020-04-13 14:41:54 -04:00
inode.c Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-07-19 10:42:02 -07:00
Kconfig Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: security 2020-08-06 12:00:05 -07:00
Kconfig.hardening security: allow using Clang's zero initialization for stack variables 2020-06-16 02:06:23 -07:00
lsm_audit.c audit: purge audit_log_string from the intra-kernel audit API 2020-07-21 11:12:31 -04:00
Makefile device_cgroup: Cleanup cgroup eBPF device filter code 2020-04-13 14:41:54 -04:00
min_addr.c sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler 2020-04-27 02:07:40 -04:00
security.c security: Fix hook iteration and default value for inode_copy_up_xattr 2020-06-23 16:39:23 -07:00