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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:21:44 -0600
From: Dan Raymond <draymond@...valley.net>
To: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@...cle.com>,
libc-coord@...ts.openwall.com,
Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@...aro.org>,
libc-alpha@...rceware.org, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Subject: Re: syslog and LOG_KERN - Re: [PATCH] Bug
3604: fix calls to openlog() with LOG_KERN facility
On 3/31/2021 1:44 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 3/31/21 12:27 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>> Not allowing LOG_KERN by any user process seems to be de facto behavior
>> on all systems I am aware of:
>>
>> * FreeBSD and MUSL explicit set to previous log facility (they check
>> if the priority against a mask and since on both LOG_KERN is 0 is
>> set to the previous/default value).
>>
>> * Solaris 11.4 man page explicit says:
>>
>> LOG_KERN Messages generated by the kernel. These cannot
>> be gener-
>> ated by any user processes.
>
> The Solaris implementation is similar to FreeBSD & MUSL - LOG_KERN is 0,
> so appears the same to syslog() as not specifying a facility and letting
> the default value be used.
It's a fair point that even with this patch the user can't explicitly
specify LOG_KERN during a call to syslog(). To use LOG_KERN they must
call openlog() first and set it as the default facility. That's a
little clumsy but it is good enough to fix the klogd implementation in
busybox. What is the alternative? To rewrite klogd so it bypasses
syslog() altogether and writes directly to the syslogd socket? That
seems inefficient and doesn't really achieve any security. If klogd can
do this any user process can do it too.
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