linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 14/61] selinux: rate-limit netlink message warnings in selinux_nlmsg

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Date:   Tue, 09 Jun 2020 19:04:05 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>,
        "Paul Moore" <pmoore@...hat.com>,
        "Vladis Dronov" <vdronov@...hat.com>,
        "Florian Weimer" <fweimer@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 14/61] selinux: rate-limit netlink message warnings
 in selinux_nlmsg_perm()

3.16.85-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Vladis Dronov <vdronov@...hat.com>

commit 76319946f321e30872dd72af7de867cb26e7a373 upstream.

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@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladis Dronov <vdronov@...hat.com>
[PM: subject line tweak to make checkpatch.pl happy]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 security/selinux/hooks.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -4683,11 +4683,12 @@ static int selinux_nlmsg_perm(struct soc
 	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;
 		}