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# Security model for system-wide tracing on Android/Linux
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The tracing service has two endpoints (in Chromium: Mojo services, on
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Android/Linux: UNIX sockets): one for producer(s) and one for consumer(s).
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The former is typically public, the latter is restricted only to trusted
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consumers.
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## Producers
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Producers are never trusted. We assume they will try their best to DoS / crash /
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exploit the tracing service. We do so at the
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[core/tracing_service_impl.cc](/src/tracing/core/tracing_service_impl.cc) so
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that the same level of security and testing is applied regardless of the
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embedder and the IPC transport.
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## Tracing service
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- The tracing service has to validate all inputs.
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- In the worst case a bug in the tracing service allowing remote code execution,
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the tracing service should have no meaningful capabilities to exploit.
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- The tracing service, by design, has a limited syscall surface to simplify
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its sandboxing:
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- It doesn't open or create files (% tmpfs).
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- It writes only onto file descriptors passed over the IPC channel.
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- It doesn't open or create sockets (on Android the IPC sockets are passed by
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init, see [perfetto.rc](/perfetto.rc))
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- On Android it runs as nobody:nobody and is allowed to do very little
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see [traced.te](https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/sepolicy/+/master/private/traced.te).
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- In Chromium it should run as a utility process.
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## Consumers
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Consumers are always trusted. They still shouldn't be able to crash or exploit
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the service. They can easily DoS it though, but that is WAI.
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- In Chromium the trust path is established through service manifest.
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- In Android the trust path is established locking down the consumer socket
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to shell through SELinux.
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## Shared memory isolation
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Memory is shared only point-to-point between each producer and the tracing
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service. We should never ever share memory across producers (in order to not
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leak trace data belonging to different producers) nor between producers and
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consumers (that would open a hard to audit path between
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untrusted-and-unprivileged and trusted-and-more-privileged entities).
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## Attestation of trace contents
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The tracing service guarantees that the `TracePacket` fields written by the
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Service cannot be spoofed by the Producer(s).
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Packets that try to define those fields are rejected, modulo clock snapshots.
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See [PacketStreamValidator](/src/tracing/core/packet_stream_validator.cc) and
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[its unit test](/src/tracing/core/packet_stream_validator_unittest.cc) for more
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details.
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At the moment nothing prevents that a producer writes `TracePacket(s)` that do
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not belong to its data sources. Realistically the service will never prevent
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that because doing so would imply that the service knows about all the possible
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types of packets, which doesn't scale.
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However, the service appends the POSIX uid of the producer to each `TracePacket`
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to perform offline attestation of the contents of the trace.
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