freebsd-dev/share/man/man4/filemon.4
Bryan Drewery e0d84b9ee9 Track filemon usage via a proc.p_filemon pointer rather than its own lists.
- proc.p_filemon is added which is protected by PROC_LOCK.  This improves
  performance and avoids double-fork issues, taking allproc_lock
  while in syscalls, and walking the process tree in syscalls.  A
  particular proc.p_filemon can only be changed to NULL or another
  filemon, or the filemon inherited, while the filemon->lock is held.
- Filemon are reference counted.  On the last reference the log will be closed.
- When closing the devfs file handle, the filemon will be detached from all
  processes and inheritance prevented.
- Disallow attaching to a process already being traced since filemon is
  typically intended to be used on children only.  This is allowed for
  curproc as bmake relies on this behavior for rare cases when combining
  .MAKE with .META.
- Detach any previously tracked process on ioctl(FILEMON_SET_PID).
- Handle error from devfs_set_cdevpriv() in filemon_open().
- The global filemon lock and lists are removed.
- A free list is no longer kept.  Previously this list was
  forever-expanding and never garbage cleaned.
- No longer loses track of double-forks.  If the process holding the filemon
  handle closes it will close the log rather than wait on a daemonized process,
  but it will log all activity until it closes its handle.  The filemon
  will be removed from the process and not inherited.
- A separate process count is kept only as an optimization for
  forced detachment to avoid taking allproc_lock and walking the entire
  process tree.
- struct filemon access is protected by sx(9) filemon->lock as it was before.
- Add more comments and KASSERTS.

MFC after:	2 weeks
Reviewed by:	kib, mjg, markj (all on previous versions)
Sponsored by:	EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5520
2016-03-21 20:29:27 +00:00

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.Dd March 21, 2016
.Dt FILEMON 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm filemon
.Nd the filemon device
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In dev/filemon/filemon.h
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
device allows a process to collect file operations data of its children.
The device
.Pa /dev/filemon
responds to two
.Xr ioctl 2
calls.
.Pp
.Nm
is not intended to be a security auditing tool.
Many syscalls are not tracked and binaries of foreign ABI will not be fully
audited.
It is intended for auditing of processes for the purpose of determining its
dependencies in an efficient and easily parsable format.
An example of this is
.Xr make 1
which uses this module with
.Sy .MAKE.MODE=meta
to handle incremental builds more smartly.
.Pp
System calls are denoted using the following single letters:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
.It Ql C
.Xr chdir 2
.It Ql D
.Xr unlink 2
.It Ql E
.Xr exec 2
.It Ql F
.Xr fork 2 ,
.Xr vfork 2
.It Ql L
.Xr link 2 ,
.Xr linkat 2 ,
.Xr symlink 2 ,
.Xr symlinkat 2
.It Ql M
.Xr rename 2
.It Ql R
.Xr open 2
for read
.It Ql S
.Xr stat 2
.It Ql W
.Xr open 2
for write
.It Ql X
.Xr _exit 2
.El
.Pp
Note that
.Ql R
following
.Ql W
records can represent a single
.Xr open 2
for R/W,
or two separate
.Xr open 2
calls, one for
.Ql R
and one for
.Ql W .
Note that only successful system calls are captured.
.Sh IOCTLS
User mode programs communicate with the
.Nm
driver through a number of ioctls which are described below.
Each takes a single argument.
.Bl -tag -width ".Dv FILEMON_SET_PID"
.It Dv FILEMON_SET_FD
Write the internal tracing buffer to the supplied open file descriptor.
.It Dv FILEMON_SET_PID
Child process ID to trace.
This should normally be done under the control of a parent in the child after
.Xr fork 2
but before anything else.
See the example below.
.El
.Sh RETURN VALUES
.\" .Rv -std ioctl
The
.Fn ioctl
function returns the value 0 if successful;
otherwise the value \-1 is returned and the global variable
.Va errno
is set to indicate the error.
.Sh ERRORS
The
.Fn ioctl
system call
with
.Dv FILEMON_SET_FD
will fail if:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EEXIST
The
.Nm
handle is already associated with a file descriptor.
.El
.Pp
The
.Fn ioctl
system call
with
.Dv FILEMON_SET_PID
will fail if:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er ESRCH
No process having the specified process ID exists.
.It Bq Er EBUSY
The process ID specified is already being traced and was not the current
process.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/filemon"
.It Pa /dev/filemon
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Bd -literal
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <dev/filemon/filemon.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <err.h>
#include <unistd.h>
static void
open_filemon(void)
{
pid_t child;
int fm_fd, fm_log;
if ((fm_fd = open("/dev/filemon", O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC)) == -1)
err(1, "open(\e"/dev/filemon\e", O_RDWR)");
if ((fm_log = open("filemon.out",
O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC | O_CLOEXEC, DEFFILEMODE)) == -1)
err(1, "open(filemon.out)");
if (ioctl(fm_fd, FILEMON_SET_FD, &fm_log) == -1)
err(1, "Cannot set filemon log file descriptor");
if ((child = fork()) == 0) {
child = getpid();
if (ioctl(fm_fd, FILEMON_SET_PID, &child) == -1)
err(1, "Cannot set filemon PID");
/* Do something here. */
} else {
wait(&child);
close(fm_fd);
}
}
.Ed
.Pp
Creates a file named
.Pa filemon.out
and configures the
.Nm
device to write the
.Nm
buffer contents to it.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr dtrace 1 ,
.Xr ktrace 1 ,
.Xr script 1 ,
.Xr truss 1 ,
.Xr ioctl 2
.Sh HISTORY
A
.Nm
device appeared in
.Fx 9.1 .
.Sh BUGS
Unloading the module may panic the system, thus requires using
.Ic kldunload -f .