netdev - Re: RFC(V3): Audit Kernel Container IDs

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Date:   Wed, 10 Jan 2018 01:54:45 -0500
From:   Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Audit <linux-audit@...hat.com>,
        Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Simo Sorce <simo@...hat.com>,
        Carlos O'Donell <carlos@...hat.com>,
        Aristeu Rozanski <arozansk@...hat.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
        Daniel Walsh <dwalsh@...hat.com>, jlayton@...hat.com,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, mszeredi@...hat.com,
        Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Steve Grubb <sgrubb@...hat.com>, trondmy@...marydata.com,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Madz Car <madzcar@...il.com>
Subject: Re: RFC(V3): Audit Kernel Container IDs

On 2018-01-09 19:05, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Please let's have a description of the problem you are trying to solve.

I thought the first sentence of the second paragraph summed it up rather
well.

Here are the elaborated motivations:

- Filter unwanted, irrelevant or unimportant messages before they fill
  queue so important messages don't get lost.  This is a certification
  requirement.

- Make security claims about containers, require tracking of actions
  within those containers to ensure compliance with established security
  policies.

- Route messages from events to local audit daemon instance or host
  audit daemon instance

- Tried nsIDs, but insufficient for efficient filtering, routing,
  tracking

> A proposed solution without talking about the problem space is useless.
> Any proposed solution could potentially work.
> 
> I know to these exist.  There is motivation for your work.
> What is the motivation?
> What problem are you trying to solve?
> 
> In particular what information are you trying to get into logs that you
> can not get into the logs today?
> 
> I am going to try to give this the attention it deserves but right now I
> am having to deal with half thought out patches for information leaks
> from speculative code paths, so I won't be able to give this much
> attention for a little bit.
> 
> Eric

- RGB

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