linux.git/kernel/audit.c, branch v3.15

net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the permisions of netlink messages

2014-04-24T17:44:54+00:00

It is possible by passing a netlink socket to a more privileged
executable and then to fool that executable into writing to the socket
data that happens to be valid netlink message to do something that
privileged executable did not intend to do.

To keep this from happening replace bare capable and ns_capable calls
with netlink_capable, netlink_net_calls and netlink_ns_capable calls.
Which act the same as the previous calls except they verify that the
opener of the socket had the desired permissions as well.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit

2014-04-12T19:38:53+00:00

Pull audit updates from Eric Paris.

* git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit: (28 commits)
  AUDIT: make audit_is_compat depend on CONFIG_AUDIT_COMPAT_GENERIC
  audit: renumber AUDIT_FEATURE_CHANGE into the 1300 range
  audit: do not cast audit_rule_data pointers pointlesly
  AUDIT: Allow login in non-init namespaces
  audit: define audit_is_compat in kernel internal header
  kernel: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in audit.c
  sched: declare pid_alive as inline
  audit: use uapi/linux/audit.h for AUDIT_ARCH declarations
  syscall_get_arch: remove useless function arguments
  audit: remove stray newline from audit_log_execve_info() audit_panic() call
  audit: remove stray newlines from audit_log_lost messages
  audit: include subject in login records
  audit: remove superfluous new- prefix in AUDIT_LOGIN messages
  audit: allow user processes to log from another PID namespace
  audit: anchor all pid references in the initial pid namespace
  audit: convert PPIDs to the inital PID namespace.
  pid: get pid_t ppid of task in init_pid_ns
  audit: rename the misleading audit_get_context() to audit_take_context()
  audit: Add generic compat syscall support
  audit: Add CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
  ...

AUDIT: Allow login in non-init namespaces

2014-03-31T19:36:41+00:00

It its possible to configure your PAM stack to refuse login if audit
messages (about the login) were unable to be sent.  This is common in
many distros and thus normal configuration of many containers.  The PAM
modules determine if audit is enabled/disabled in the kernel based on
the return value from sending an audit message on the netlink socket.
If userspace gets back ECONNREFUSED it believes audit is disabled in the
kernel.  If it gets any other error else it refuses to let the login
proceed.

Just about ever since the introduction of namespaces the kernel audit
subsystem has returned EPERM if the task sending a message was not in
the init user or pid namespace.  So many forms of containers have never
worked if audit was enabled in the kernel.

BUT if the container was not in net_init then the kernel network code
would send ECONNREFUSED (instead of the audit code sending EPERM).  Thus
by pure accident/dumb luck/bug if an admin configured the PAM stack to
reject all logins that didn't talk to audit, but then ran the login
untility in the non-init_net namespace, it would work!! Clearly this was
a bug, but it is a bug some people expected.

With the introduction of network namespace support in 3.14-rc1 the two
bugs stopped cancelling each other out.  Now, containers in the
non-init_net namespace refused to let users log in (just like PAM was
configfured!) Obviously some people were not happy that what used to let
users log in, now didn't!

This fix is kinda hacky.  We return ECONNREFUSED for all non-init
relevant namespaces.  That means that not only will the old broken
non-init_net setups continue to work, now the broken non-init_pid or
non-init_user setups will 'work'.  They don't really work, since audit
isn't logging things.  But it's what most users want.

In 3.15 we should have patches to support not only the non-init_net
(3.14) namespace but also the non-init_pid and non-init_user namespace.
So all will be right in the world.  This just opens the doors wide open
on 3.14 and hopefully makes users happy, if not the audit system...

Reported-by: Andre Tomt 
Reported-by: Adam Richter 
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 

Conflicts:
	kernel/audit.c

AUDIT: Allow login in non-init namespaces

2014-03-31T00:02:53+00:00

It its possible to configure your PAM stack to refuse login if audit
messages (about the login) were unable to be sent.  This is common in
many distros and thus normal configuration of many containers.  The PAM
modules determine if audit is enabled/disabled in the kernel based on
the return value from sending an audit message on the netlink socket.
If userspace gets back ECONNREFUSED it believes audit is disabled in the
kernel.  If it gets any other error else it refuses to let the login
proceed.

Just about ever since the introduction of namespaces the kernel audit
subsystem has returned EPERM if the task sending a message was not in
the init user or pid namespace.  So many forms of containers have never
worked if audit was enabled in the kernel.

BUT if the container was not in net_init then the kernel network code
would send ECONNREFUSED (instead of the audit code sending EPERM).  Thus
by pure accident/dumb luck/bug if an admin configured the PAM stack to
reject all logins that didn't talk to audit, but then ran the login
untility in the non-init_net namespace, it would work!! Clearly this was
a bug, but it is a bug some people expected.

With the introduction of network namespace support in 3.14-rc1 the two
bugs stopped cancelling each other out.  Now, containers in the
non-init_net namespace refused to let users log in (just like PAM was
configfured!) Obviously some people were not happy that what used to let
users log in, now didn't!

This fix is kinda hacky.  We return ECONNREFUSED for all non-init
relevant namespaces.  That means that not only will the old broken
non-init_net setups continue to work, now the broken non-init_pid or
non-init_user setups will 'work'.  They don't really work, since audit
isn't logging things.  But it's what most users want.

In 3.15 we should have patches to support not only the non-init_net
(3.14) namespace but also the non-init_pid and non-init_user namespace.
So all will be right in the world.  This just opens the doors wide open
on 3.14 and hopefully makes users happy, if not the audit system...

Reported-by: Andre Tomt 
Reported-by: Adam Richter 
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in audit.c

2014-03-24T16:00:22+00:00

This patch replaces rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL)

The rcu_assign_pointer() ensures that the initialization of a structure
is carried out before storing a pointer to that structure.
And in the case of the NULL pointer, there is no structure to initialize.
So, rcu_assign_pointer(p, NULL) can be safely converted to RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, NULL)

Signed-off-by: Monam Agarwal 
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

audit: remove stray newlines from audit_log_lost messages

2014-03-20T14:11:58+00:00

Calling audit_log_lost with a \n in the format string leads to extra
newlines in dmesg.  That function will eventually call audit_panic which
uses pr_err with an explicit \n included.  Just make these calls match the
others that lack \n.

Reported-by: Jonathan Kamens 
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer 
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs

audit: allow user processes to log from another PID namespace

2014-03-20T14:11:56+00:00

Still only permit the audit logging daemon and control to operate from the
initial PID namespace, but allow processes to log from another PID namespace.

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
(informed by ebiederman's c776b5d2)

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs

audit: anchor all pid references in the initial pid namespace

2014-03-20T14:11:55+00:00

Store and log all PIDs with reference to the initial PID namespace and
use the access functions task_pid_nr() and task_tgid_nr() for task->pid
and task->tgid.

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
(informed by ebiederman's c776b5d2)
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs

audit: convert PPIDs to the inital PID namespace.

2014-03-20T14:11:55+00:00

sys_getppid() returns the parent pid of the current process in its own pid
namespace.  Since audit filters are based in the init pid namespace, a process
could avoid a filter or trigger an unintended one by being in an alternate pid
namespace or log meaningless information.

Switch to task_ppid_nr() for PPIDs to anchor all audit filters in the
init_pid_ns.

(informed by ebiederman's 6c621b7e)
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs

audit: Send replies in the proper network namespace.

2014-03-20T14:11:02+00:00

In perverse cases of file descriptor passing the current network
namespace of a process and the network namespace of a socket used by
that socket may differ.  Therefore use the network namespace of the
appropiate socket to ensure replies always go to the appropiate
socket.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Acked-by: Richard Guy Briggs 
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris