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KP Singh says: ==================== ** Motivation Google does analysis of rich runtime security data to detect and thwart threats in real-time. Currently, this is done in custom kernel modules but we would like to replace this with something that's upstream and useful to others. The current kernel infrastructure for providing telemetry (Audit, Perf etc.) is disjoint from access enforcement (i.e. LSMs). Augmenting the information provided by audit requires kernel changes to audit, its policy language and user-space components. Furthermore, building a MAC policy based on the newly added telemetry data requires changes to various LSMs and their respective policy languages. This patchset allows BPF programs to be attached to LSM hooks This facilitates a unified and dynamic (not requiring re-compilation of the kernel) audit and MAC policy. ** Why an LSM? Linux Security Modules target security behaviours rather than the kernel's API. For example, it's easy to miss out a newly added system call for executing processes (eg. execve, execveat etc.) but the LSM framework ensures that all process executions trigger the relevant hooks irrespective of how the process was executed. Allowing users to implement LSM hooks at runtime also benefits the LSM eco-system by enabling a quick feedback loop from the security community about the kind of behaviours that the LSM Framework should be targeting. ** How does it work? The patchset introduces a new eBPF (https://docs.cilium.io/en/v1.6/bpf/) program type BPF_PROG_TYPE_LSM which can only be attached to LSM hooks. Loading and attachment of BPF programs requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN. The new LSM registers nop functions (bpf_lsm_<hook_name>) as LSM hook callbacks. Their purpose is to provide a definite point where BPF programs can be attached as BPF_TRAMP_MODIFY_RETURN trampoline programs for hooks that return an int, and BPF_TRAMP_FEXIT trampoline programs for void LSM hooks. Audit logs can be written using a format chosen by the eBPF program to the perf events buffer or to global eBPF variables or maps and can be further processed in user-space. ** BTF Based Design The current design uses BTF: * https://facebookmicrosites.github.io/bpf/blog/2018/11/14/btf-enhancement.html * https://lwn.net/Articles/803258 which allows verifiable read-only structure accesses by field names rather than fixed offsets. This allows accessing the hook parameters using a dynamically created context which provides a certain degree of ABI stability: // Only declare the structure and fields intended to be used // in the program struct vm_area_struct { unsigned long vm_start; } __attribute__((preserve_access_index)); // Declare the eBPF program mprotect_audit which attaches to // to the file_mprotect LSM hook and accepts three arguments. SEC("lsm/file_mprotect") int BPF_PROG(mprotect_audit, struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long reqprot, unsigned long prot, int ret) { unsigned long vm_start = vma->vm_start; return 0; } By relocating field offsets, BTF makes a large portion of kernel data structures readily accessible across kernel versions without requiring a large corpus of BPF helper functions and requiring recompilation with every kernel version. The BTF type information is also used by the BPF verifier to validate memory accesses within the BPF program and also prevents arbitrary writes to the kernel memory. The limitations of BTF compatibility are described in BPF Co-Re (http://vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2019_talks/bpf-core.pdf, i.e. field renames, #defines and changes to the signature of LSM hooks). This design imposes that the MAC policy (eBPF programs) be updated when the inspected kernel structures change outside of BTF compatibility guarantees. In practice, this is only required when a structure field used by a current policy is removed (or renamed) or when the used LSM hooks change. We expect the maintenance cost of these changes to be acceptable as compared to the design presented in the RFC. (https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/). ** Usage Examples A simple example and some documentation is included in the patchset. In order to better illustrate the capabilities of the framework some more advanced prototype (not-ready for review) code has also been published separately: * Logging execution events (including environment variables and arguments) https://github.com/sinkap/linux-krsi/blob/patch/v1/examples/samples/bpf/lsm_audit_env.c * Detecting deletion of running executables: https://github.com/sinkap/linux-krsi/blob/patch/v1/examples/samples/bpf/lsm_detect_exec_unlink.c * Detection of writes to /proc/<pid>/mem: https://github.com/sinkap/linux-krsi/blob/patch/v1/examples/samples/bpf/lsm_audit_env.c We have updated Google's internal telemetry infrastructure and have started deploying this LSM on our Linux Workstations. This gives us more confidence in the real-world applications of such a system. ** Changelog: - v8 -> v9: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/ * Fixed a selftest crash when CONFIG_LSM doesn't have "bpf". * Added James' Ack. * Rebase. - v7 -> v8: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/ * Removed CAP_MAC_ADMIN check from bpf_lsm_verify_prog. LSMs can add it in their own bpf_prog hook. This can be revisited as a separate patch. * Added Andrii and James' Ack/Review tags. * Fixed an indentation issue and missing newlines in selftest error a cases. * Updated a comment as suggested by Alexei. * Updated the documentation to use the newer libbpf API and some other fixes. * Rebase - v6 -> v7: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/ * Removed __weak from the LSM attachment nops per Kees' suggestion. Will send a separate patch (if needed) to update the noinline definition in include/linux/compiler_attributes.h. * waitpid to wait specifically for the forked child in selftests. * Comment format fixes in security/... as suggested by Casey. * Added Acks from Kees and Andrii and Casey's Reviewed-by: tags to the respective patches. * Rebase - v5 -> v6: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/ * Updated LSM_HOOK macro to define a default value and cleaned up the BPF LSM hook declarations. * Added Yonghong's Acks and Kees' Reviewed-by tags. * Simplification of the selftest code. * Rebase and fixes suggested by Andrii and Yonghong and some other minor fixes noticed in internal review. - v4 -> v5: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/ * Removed static keys and special casing of BPF calls from the LSM framework. * Initialized the BPF callbacks (nops) as proper LSM hooks. * Updated to using the newly introduced BPF_TRAMP_MODIFY_RETURN trampolines in https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/4/877 * Addressed Andrii's feedback and rebased. - v3 -> v4: * Moved away from allocating a separate security_hook_heads and adding a new special case for arch_prepare_bpf_trampoline to using BPF fexit trampolines called from the right place in the LSM hook and toggled by static keys based on the discussion in: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAG48ez25mW+_oCxgCtbiGMX07g_ph79UOJa07h=o_6B6+Q-u5g@mail.gmail.com/ * Since the code does not deal with security_hook_heads anymore, it goes from "being a BPF LSM" to "BPF program attachment to LSM hooks". * Added a new test case which ensures that the BPF programs' return value is reflected by the LSM hook. - v2 -> v3 does not change the overall design and has some minor fixes: * LSM_ORDER_LAST is introduced to represent the behaviour of the BPF LSM * Fixed the inadvertent clobbering of the LSM Hook error codes * Added GPL license requirement to the commit log * The lsm_hook_idx is now the more conventional 0-based index * Some changes were split into a separate patch ("Load btf_vmlinux only once per object") https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/ * Addressed Andrii's feedback on the BTF implementation * Documentation update for using generated vmlinux.h to simplify programs * Rebase - Changes since v1: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected] * Eliminate the requirement to maintain LSM hooks separately in security/bpf/hooks.h Use BPF trampolines to dynamically allocate security hooks * Drop the use of securityfs as bpftool provides the required introspection capabilities. Update the tests to use the bpf_skeleton and global variables * Use O_CLOEXEC anonymous fds to represent BPF attachment in line with the other BPF programs with the possibility to use bpf program pinning in the future to provide "permanent attachment". * Drop the logic based on prog names for handling re-attachment. * Drop bpf_lsm_event_output from this series and send it as a separate patch. ==================== Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
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