global audit trail configuration. This allows applications consuming
audit trails to specify parameters for which audit records are of
interest, including selecting records not required by the global trail.
Allowing application interest specification without changing the global
configuration allows intrusion detection systems to run without
interfering with global auditing or each other (if multiple are
present). To implement this:
- Kernel audit records now carry a flag to indicate whether they have
been selected by the global trail or by the audit pipe subsystem,
set during record commit, so that this information is available
after BSM conversion when delivering the BSM to the trail and audit
pipes in the audit worker thread asynchronously. Preselection by
either record target will cause the record to be kept.
- Similar changes to preselection when the audit record is created
when the system call is entering: consult both the global trail and
pipes.
- au_preselect() now accepts the class in order to avoid repeatedly
looking up the mask for each preselection test.
- Define a series of ioctls that allow applications to specify whether
they want to track the global trail, or program their own
preselection parameters: they may specify their own flags and naflags
masks, similar to the global masks of the same name, as well as a set
of per-auid masks. They also set a per-pipe mode specifying whether
they track the global trail, or user their own -- the door is left
open for future additional modes. A new ioctl is defined to allow a
user process to flush the current audit pipe queue, which can be used
after reprogramming pre-selection to make sure that only records of
interest are received in future reads.
- Audit pipe data structures are extended to hold the additional fields
necessary to support preselection. By default, audit pipes track the
global trail, so "praudit /dev/auditpipe" will track the global audit
trail even though praudit doesn't program the audit pipe selection
model.
- Comment about the complexities of potentially adding partial read
support to audit pipes.
By using a set of ioctls, applications can select which records are of
interest, and toggle the preselection mode.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
worker.
Rename audit_commit_cv to audit_watermark_cv, since it is there to
wake up threads waiting on hitting the low watermark. Describe
properly in comment.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
branch:
Integrate audit.c to audit_worker.c, so as to migrate the worker
thread implementation to its own .c file.
Populate audit_worker.c using parts now removed from audit.c:
- Move audit rotation global variables.
- Move audit_record_write(), audit_worker_rotate(),
audit_worker_drain(), audit_worker(), audit_rotate_vnode().
- Create audit_worker_init() from relevant parts of audit_init(),
which now calls this routine.
- Recreate audit_free(), which wraps uma_zfree() so that
audit_record_zone can be static to audit.c.
- Unstaticize various types and variables relating to the audit
record queue so that audit_worker can get to them. We may want
to wrap these in accessor methods at some point.
- Move AUDIT_PRINTF() to audit_private.h.
Addition of audit_worker.c to kernel configuration, missed in
earlier submit.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Change send_trigger() prototype to return an int, so that user
space callers can tell if the message was successfully placed
in the trigger queue. This isn't quite the same as it being
successfully received, but is close enough that we can generate
a more useful warning message in audit(8).
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
- Include audit_internal.h to get definition of internal audit record
structures, as it's no longer in audit.h. Forward declare au_record
in audit_private.h as not all audit_private.h consumers care about
it.
- Remove __APPLE__ compatibility bits that are subsumed by configure
for user space.
- Don't expose in6_addr internals (non-portable, but also cleaner
looking).
- Avoid nested include of audit.h in audit_private.h.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
applications to insert a "tee" in the live audit event stream. Records
are inserted into a per-clone queue so that user processes can pull
discreet records out of the queue. Unlike delivery to disk, audit pipes
are "lossy", dropping records in low memory conditions or when the
process falls behind real-time events. This mechanism is appropriate
for use by live monitoring systems, host-based intrusion detection, etc,
and avoids applications having to dig through active on-disk trails that
are owned by the audit daemon.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
- Management of audit state on processes.
- Audit system calls to configure process and system audit state.
- Reliable audit record queue implementation, audit_worker kernel
thread to asynchronously store records on disk.
- Audit event argument.
- Internal audit data structure -> BSM audit trail conversion library.
- Audit event pre-selection.
- Audit pseudo-device permitting kernel->user upcalls to notify auditd
of kernel audit events.
Much work by: wsalamon
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project, Apple Computer, Inc.
