Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] io_uring,audit: do not log IORING_OP_*GETXATTR

[Richard Guy Briggs]

On 2023-01-27 17:43, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 12:24 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Getting XATTRs is not particularly interesting security-wise.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: a56834e0fafe ("io_uring: add fgetxattr and getxattr support")
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  io_uring/opdef.c | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> Depending on your security policy, fetching file data, including
> xattrs, can be interesting from a security perspective.  As an
> example, look at the SELinux file/getattr permission.
> 
> https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux-notebook/blob/main/src/object_classes_permissions.md#common-file-permissions

The intent here is to lessen the impact of audit operations.  Read and
Write were explicitly removed from io_uring auditing due to performance
concerns coupled with the denial of service implications from sheer
volume of records making other messages harder to locate.  Those
operations are still possible for syscall auditing but they are strongly
discouraged for normal use.

If the frequency of getxattr io_uring ops is so infrequent as to be no
distraction, then this patch may be more of a liability than a benefit.

> > diff --git a/io_uring/opdef.c b/io_uring/opdef.c
> > index a2bf53b4a38a..f6bfe2cf078c 100644
> > --- a/io_uring/opdef.c
> > +++ b/io_uring/opdef.c
> > @@ -462,12 +462,14 @@ const struct io_op_def io_op_defs[] = {
> >         },
> >         [IORING_OP_FGETXATTR] = {
> >                 .needs_file = 1,
> > +               .audit_skip             = 1,
> >                 .name                   = "FGETXATTR",
> >                 .prep                   = io_fgetxattr_prep,
> >                 .issue                  = io_fgetxattr,
> >                 .cleanup                = io_xattr_cleanup,
> >         },
> >         [IORING_OP_GETXATTR] = {
> > +               .audit_skip             = 1,
> >                 .name                   = "GETXATTR",
> >                 .prep                   = io_getxattr_prep,
> >                 .issue                  = io_getxattr,
> > --
> > 2.27.0
> 
> -- 
> paul-moore.com
> 

- RGB

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