Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] RFC: selinux: sysctl: fix selinux labeling broken by last patch | From | Stephen Smalley <> | Date | Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:59:35 -0500 |
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On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 18:27 +0200, Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote: > There are now fewer differences than before, but I'd like to point > something out: *without* the patches files in /proc/sys/* get labeled > like this. > -r--r--r-- unknown /proc/sys/fs/file-nr > -rw-r--r-- unknown /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace > -rw-r--r-- unknown /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/autoclose > -rw-r--r-- unknown /proc/sys/kernel/sem > -rw-r--r-- unknown > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_local > > but with the patches: > -r--r--r-- system_u:object_r:sysctl_fs_t:s0 /proc/sys/fs/file-nr > -rw-r--r-- system_u:object_r:sysctl_t:s0 /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace > -rw-r--r-- system_u:object_r:sysctl_dev_t:s0 /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/autoclose > -rw-r--r-- system_u:object_r:sysctl_kernel_t:s0 /proc/sys/kernel/sem > -rw-r--r-- system_u:object_r:sysctl_net_t:s0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_local > > > There seem to be no labeling mismatches elsewhere. So either sysctl > labeling is broken in 2.6.37 or my test setup is broken.
/proc/sys inode labeling was disabled earlier (hence marked S_PRIVATE) when /proc/sys was reimplemented by Eric, so all access control on /proc/sys was switched to using the sysctl hook rather than the inode-based checking. That's why you don't get a result from ls -Z on /proc/sys on current kernels. Getting actual labeling working again for those inodes would be a win, so your patch is an improvement in that regard for selinux.
-- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency
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