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2017-08-14seccomp: Sysctl to configure actions that are allowed to be loggedTyler Hicks
Adminstrators can write to this sysctl to set the seccomp actions that are allowed to be logged. Any actions not found in this sysctl will not be logged. For example, all SECCOMP_RET_KILL, SECCOMP_RET_TRAP, and SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO actions would be loggable if "kill trap errno" were written to the sysctl. SECCOMP_RET_TRACE actions would not be logged since its string representation ("trace") wasn't present in the sysctl value. The path to the sysctl is: /proc/sys/kernel/seccomp/actions_logged The actions_avail sysctl can be read to discover the valid action names that can be written to the actions_logged sysctl with the exception of "allow". SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW actions cannot be configured for logging. The default setting for the sysctl is to allow all actions to be logged except SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW. While only SECCOMP_RET_KILL actions are currently logged, an upcoming patch will allow applications to request additional actions to be logged. There's one important exception to this sysctl. If a task is specifically being audited, meaning that an audit context has been allocated for the task, seccomp will log all actions other than SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW despite the value of actions_logged. This exception preserves the existing auditing behavior of tasks with an allocated audit context. With this patch, the logic for deciding if an action will be logged is: if action == RET_ALLOW: do not log else if action == RET_KILL && RET_KILL in actions_logged: log else if audit_enabled && task-is-being-audited: log else: do not log Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2017-08-14seccomp: Sysctl to display available actionsTyler Hicks
This patch creates a read-only sysctl containing an ordered list of seccomp actions that the kernel supports. The ordering, from left to right, is the lowest action value (kill) to the highest action value (allow). Currently, a read of the sysctl file would return "kill trap errno trace allow". The contents of this sysctl file can be useful for userspace code as well as the system administrator. The path to the sysctl is: /proc/sys/kernel/seccomp/actions_avail libseccomp and other userspace code can easily determine which actions the current kernel supports. The set of actions supported by the current kernel may be different than the set of action macros found in kernel headers that were installed where the userspace code was built. In addition, this sysctl will allow system administrators to know which actions are supported by the kernel and make it easier to configure exactly what seccomp logs through the audit subsystem. Support for this level of logging configuration will come in a future patch. Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2017-05-18doc: ReSTify no_new_privs.txtKees Cook
This updates no_new_privs documentation to ReST markup and adds it to the user-space API documentation. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-05-18doc: ReSTify seccomp_filter.txtKees Cook
This updates seccomp_filter.txt for ReST markup, and moves it under the user-space API index, since it describes how application author can use seccomp. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-05-18doc-rst: fix inline emphasis in unshare.rstMarkus Heiser
The asterisk of the pointer is interpreted as a start tag for inline emphasis. Asterisks which are not Sphinx markup need to be quoted in rst-files. This fixes the Sphinx warning: Documentation/userspace-api/unshare.rst:108: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string. Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-04-02docs: Convert unshare.txt to RST and add to the user-space API manualJonathan Corbet
This is a straightforward conversion, without any real textual changes. Since this document has seen no substantive changes since its addition in 2006, some such changes are probably warranted. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-04-02docs: Create a user-space API guideJonathan Corbet
This is meant to be the place for documentation relevant to application developers. It's empty for the moment, but at least we have a place now! Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>