On 13/12/09, Gao feng wrote: > On 12/07/2013 05:31 AM, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > Quoting Gao feng (gaof...@cn.fujitsu.com):
> >> The main target of this patchset is allowing user in audit > >> namespace to generate the USER_MSG type of audit message, > >> some userspace tools need to generate audit message, or > >> these tools will broken. > >> > >> And the login process in container may want to setup > >> /proc/<pid>/loginuid, right now this value is unalterable > >> once it being set. this will also broke the login problem > >> in container. After this patchset, we can reset this loginuid > >> to zero if task is running in a new audit namespace. > >> > >> Same with v1 patchset, in this patchset, only the privileged > >> user in init_audit_ns and init_user_ns has rights to > >> add/del audit rules. and these rules are gloabl. all > >> audit namespace will comply with the rules. > >> > >> Compared with v1, v2 patch has some big changes. > >> 1, the audit namespace is not assigned to user namespace. > >> since there is no available bit of flags for clone, we > >> create audit namespace through netlink, patch[18/20] > >> introduces a new audit netlink type AUDIT_CREATE_NS. > >> the privileged user in userns has rights to create a > >> audit namespace, it means the unprivileged user can > >> create auditns through create userns first. In order > >> to prevent them from doing harm to host, the default > >> audit_backlog_limit of un-init-audit-ns is zero(means > >> audit is unavailable in audit namespace). and it can't > >> be changed in auditns through netlink. > > > > So the unprivileged user can create an audit-ns, but can't > > then actually send any messages there? I guess setting it > > to something small would just be hacky? > > Yes, if unprivileged user wants to send audit message, he should > ask privileged user to setup the audit_backlog_limit for him. > > I know it's a little of hack, but I don't have good idea :( There's a recent patch that actually clarifies the way audit_backlog_limit works, since different parts of the code seemed to think different things. It now means unlimited, since there are other places to shut off logging. audit: allow unlimited backlog queue At first, I'd say each audit_ns should be able to set its own audit_backlog_limit. The most obvious argument against this would be the vulnerability of a DoS. Could there be some automatic metrics to set sub audit_ns backlog limits, such as default to the same as init_audit_ns and have the init_audit_ns override those defaults? Could this be done per user like ulimiit? - RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs <rbri...@redhat.com> Senior Software Engineer, Kernel Security, AMER ENG Base Operating Systems, Red Hat Remote, Ottawa, Canada Voice: +1.647.777.2635, Internal: (81) 32635, Alt: +1.613.693.0684x3545 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/