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[v3] selinux: rate-limit unrecognized netlink message warnings in selinux_nlmsg_perm()

Message ID 1447424059-11174-1-git-send-email-vdronov@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Delegated to: Paul Moore
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Commit Message

Vladis Dronov Nov. 13, 2015, 2:14 p.m. UTC
Any process is able to send netlink messages with invalid types.
Make the warning rate-limited to prevent too much log spam.

The warning is supposed to help to find misbehaving programs, so
print the triggering command name and pid.

Reported-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladis Dronov <vdronov@redhat.com>
---
 security/selinux/hooks.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Paul Moore Nov. 13, 2015, 11:19 p.m. UTC | #1
On Friday, November 13, 2015 03:14:19 PM Vladis Dronov wrote:
> Any process is able to send netlink messages with invalid types.
> Make the warning rate-limited to prevent too much log spam.
> 
> The warning is supposed to help to find misbehaving programs, so
> print the triggering command name and pid.
> 
> Reported-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vladis Dronov <vdronov@redhat.com>
> ---
>  security/selinux/hooks.c | 9 +++++----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Applied to my selinux@next queue, with the merge window expected to close this 
weekend, this patch should appear in linux-next sometime next week.

> diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> index d0cfaa9..791fc46 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> @@ -4785,11 +4785,12 @@ static int selinux_nlmsg_perm(struct sock *sk,
> struct sk_buff *skb) err = selinux_nlmsg_lookup(sksec->sclass,
> nlh->nlmsg_type, &perm); if (err) {
>  		if (err == -EINVAL) {
> -			printk(KERN_WARNING
> -			       "SELinux: unrecognized netlink message:"
> -			       " protocol=%hu nlmsg_type=%hu sclass=%s\n",
> +			pr_warn_ratelimited("SELinux: unrecognized netlink"
> +			       " message: protocol=%hu nlmsg_type=%hu sclass=%s"
> +			       " pig=%d comm=%s\n",
>  			       sk->sk_protocol, nlh->nlmsg_type,
> -			       secclass_map[sksec->sclass - 1].name);
> +			       secclass_map[sksec->sclass - 1].name,
> +			       task_pid_nr(current), current->comm);
>  			if (!selinux_enforcing || security_get_allow_unknown())
>  				err = 0;
>  		}
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diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index d0cfaa9..791fc46 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -4785,11 +4785,12 @@  static int selinux_nlmsg_perm(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	err = selinux_nlmsg_lookup(sksec->sclass, nlh->nlmsg_type, &perm);
 	if (err) {
 		if (err == -EINVAL) {
-			printk(KERN_WARNING
-			       "SELinux: unrecognized netlink message:"
-			       " protocol=%hu nlmsg_type=%hu sclass=%s\n",
+			pr_warn_ratelimited("SELinux: unrecognized netlink"
+			       " message: protocol=%hu nlmsg_type=%hu sclass=%s"
+			       " pig=%d comm=%s\n",
 			       sk->sk_protocol, nlh->nlmsg_type,
-			       secclass_map[sksec->sclass - 1].name);
+			       secclass_map[sksec->sclass - 1].name,
+			       task_pid_nr(current), current->comm);
 			if (!selinux_enforcing || security_get_allow_unknown())
 				err = 0;
 		}