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SubjectRe: [PATCH ghak90 V8 15/16] audit: check contid count per netns and add config param limit
On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 2:51 PM Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Clamp the number of audit container identifiers associated with a
> network namespace to limit the netlink and disk bandwidth used and to
> prevent losing information from record text size overflow in the contid
> field.
>
> Add a configuration parameter AUDIT_STATUS_CONTID_NETNS_LIMIT (0x100)
> to set the audit container identifier netns limit. This is used to
> prevent overflow of the contid field in CONTAINER_OP and CONTAINER_ID
> messages, losing information, and to limit bandwidth used by these
> messages.
>
> This value must be balanced with the audit container identifier nesting
> depth limit to multiply out to no more than 400. This is determined by
> the total audit message length less message overhead divided by the
> length of the text representation of an audit container identifier.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
> ---
> include/linux/audit.h | 16 +++++++----
> include/linux/nsproxy.h | 2 +-
> include/uapi/linux/audit.h | 2 ++
> kernel/audit.c | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> kernel/audit.h | 7 +++++
> kernel/fork.c | 10 +++++--
> kernel/nsproxy.c | 27 +++++++++++++++---
> 7 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

Similar to my comments in patch 14, let's defer this to a later time
if we need to do this at all.

--
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com

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