setuids.bt(8)

NAME
setuids.bt - Trace setuid family of syscalls. Uses bpftrace/eBPF.

SYNOPSIS
setuids.bt

DESCRIPTION
This tool traces privilege escalation via setuid syscalls, and can be used for debugging, whitelist creation, and intrusion detection. It works by tracing the setuid(2), setfsuid(2), and retresuid(2) syscalls using the syscall tracepoints. Since this uses BPF, only the root user can use this tool.

REQUIREMENTS
CONFIG_BPF and bpftrace.

EXAMPLES

Trace setuid syscalls:
    # setuids.bt

FIELDS

PID The calling process ID.

COMM
    The calling process (thread) name.

UID The UID of the caller.

SYSCALL
    The syscall name.

ARGS
    The arguments to the syscall

(RET)
    The return value for the syscall: 0 == success, other numbers indicate an error code.

OVERHEAD
setuid calls are expected to be low frequency (<< 100/s), so the overhead of this tool is expected to be negligible.

SOURCE
This tool originated from the book "BPF Performance Tools", published by Addison Wesley (2019):

    http://www.brendangregg.com/bpf-performance-tools-book.html

See the book for more documentation on this tool.

This version is in the bpftrace repository:

    https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace

Also look in the bpftrace distribution for a companion _examples.txt file containing example usage, output, and commentary for this tool.

OS
Linux

STABILITY
Unstable - in development.

AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg

SEE ALSO
capable.bt(8)