[RFC PATCH v2 0/9] Add LSM access controls and auditing to io_uring

Richard Guy Briggs rgb at redhat.com
Thu Aug 26 01:16:39 UTC 2021


On 2021-08-24 16:57, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 2021-08-11 16:48, Paul Moore wrote:
> > Draft #2 of the patchset which brings auditing and proper LSM access
> > controls to the io_uring subsystem.  The original patchset was posted
> > in late May and can be found via lore using the link below:
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-security-module/162163367115.8379.8459012634106035341.stgit@sifl/
> > 
> > This draft should incorporate all of the feedback from the original
> > posting as well as a few smaller things I noticed while playing
> > further with the code.  The big change is of course the selective
> > auditing in the io_uring op servicing, but that has already been
> > discussed quite a bit in the original thread so I won't go into
> > detail here; the important part is that we found a way to move
> > forward and this draft captures that.  For those of you looking to
> > play with these patches, they are based on Linus' v5.14-rc5 tag and
> > on my test system they boot and appear to function without problem;
> > they pass the selinux-testsuite and audit-testsuite and I have not
> > noticed any regressions in the normal use of the system.  If you want
> > to get a copy of these patches straight from git you can use the
> > "working-io_uring" branch in the repo below:
> > 
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux.git
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux.git
> > 
> > Beyond the existing test suite tests mentioned above, I've cobbled
> > together some very basic, very crude tests to exercise some of the
> > things I care about from a LSM/audit perspective.  These tests are
> > pretty awful (I'm not kidding), but they might be helpful for the
> > other LSM/audit developers who want to test things:
> > 
> > https://drop.paul-moore.com/90.kUgq
> > 
> > There are currently two tests: 'iouring.2' and 'iouring.3';
> > 'iouring.1' was lost in a misguided and overzealous 'rm' command.
> > The first test is standalone and basically tests the SQPOLL
> > functionality while the second tests sharing io_urings across process
> > boundaries and the credential/personality sharing mechanism.  The
> > console output of both tests isn't particularly useful, the more
> > interesting bits are in the audit and LSM specific logs.  The
> > 'iouring.2' command requires no special arguments to run but the
> > 'iouring.3' test is split into a "server" and "client"; the server
> > should be run without argument:
> > 
> >   % ./iouring.3s
> >   >>> server started, pid = 11678
> >   >>> memfd created, fd = 3
> >   >>> io_uring created; fd = 5, creds = 1
> > 
> > ... while the client should be run with two arguments: the first is
> > the PID of the server process, the second is the "memfd" fd number:
> > 
> >   % ./iouring.3c 11678 3
> >   >>> client started, server_pid = 11678 server_memfd = 3
> >   >>> io_urings = 5 (server) / 5 (client)
> >   >>> io_uring ops using creds = 1
> >   >>> async op result: 36
> >   >>> async op result: 36
> >   >>> async op result: 36
> >   >>> async op result: 36
> >   >>> START file contents
> >   What is this life if, full of care,
> >   we have no time to stand and stare.
> >   >>> END file contents
> > 
> > The tests were hacked together from various sources online,
> > attribution and links to additional info can be found in the test
> > sources, but I expect these tests to die a fiery death in the not
> > to distant future as I work to add some proper tests to the SELinux
> > and audit test suites.
> > 
> > As I believe these patches should spend a full -rcX cycle in
> > linux-next, my current plan is to continue to solicit feedback on
> > these patches while they undergo additional testing (next up is
> > verification of the audit filter code for io_uring).  Assuming no
> > critical issues are found on the mailing lists or during testing, I
> > will post a proper patchset later with the idea of merging it into
> > selinux/next after the upcoming merge window closes.
> > 
> > Any comments, feedback, etc. are welcome.
> 
> Thanks for the tests.  I have a bunch of userspace patches to add to the
> last set I posted and these tests will help exercise them.  I also have
> one more kernel patch to post...  I'll dive back into that now.  I had
> wanted to post them before now but got distracted with AUDIT_TRIM
> breakage.

Please tell me about liburing.h that is needed for these.  There is one
in tools/io_uring/liburing.h but I don't think that one is right.

The next obvious one would be include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h

I must be missing something obvious here...

> > ---
> > 
> > Casey Schaufler (1):
> >       Smack: Brutalist io_uring support with debug
> > 
> > Paul Moore (8):
> >       audit: prepare audit_context for use in calling contexts beyond
> >              syscalls
> >       audit,io_uring,io-wq: add some basic audit support to io_uring
> >       audit: dev/test patch to force io_uring auditing
> >       audit: add filtering for io_uring records
> >       fs: add anon_inode_getfile_secure() similar to
> >           anon_inode_getfd_secure()
> >       io_uring: convert io_uring to the secure anon inode interface
> >       lsm,io_uring: add LSM hooks to io_uring
> >       selinux: add support for the io_uring access controls
> > 
> > 
> >  fs/anon_inodes.c                    |  29 ++
> >  fs/io-wq.c                          |   4 +
> >  fs/io_uring.c                       |  69 +++-
> >  include/linux/anon_inodes.h         |   4 +
> >  include/linux/audit.h               |  26 ++
> >  include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h       |   5 +
> >  include/linux/lsm_hooks.h           |  13 +
> >  include/linux/security.h            |  16 +
> >  include/uapi/linux/audit.h          |   4 +-
> >  kernel/audit.h                      |   7 +-
> >  kernel/audit_tree.c                 |   3 +-
> >  kernel/audit_watch.c                |   3 +-
> >  kernel/auditfilter.c                |  15 +-
> >  kernel/auditsc.c                    | 483 +++++++++++++++++++-----
> >  security/security.c                 |  12 +
> >  security/selinux/hooks.c            |  34 ++
> >  security/selinux/include/classmap.h |   2 +
> >  security/smack/smack_lsm.c          |  64 ++++
> >  18 files changed, 678 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> - RGB
> 
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> Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com>
> Sr. S/W Engineer, Kernel Security, Base Operating Systems
> Remote, Ottawa, Red Hat Canada
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- RGB

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Sr. S/W Engineer, Kernel Security, Base Operating Systems
Remote, Ottawa, Red Hat Canada
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