Re: [patch] selinux: handle files opened with flags 3 by checking ioctl permission

[Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 09:15 +1100, James Morris wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Eric Paris wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 08:55 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 08:41 +1100, James Morris wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Alternatively, we could default to returning FILE__IOCTL from
> > > > > file_to_av() if the f_mode has neither FMODE_READ nor FMODE_WRITE, and
> > > > > thus check ioctl permission on exec or transfer, thereby validating such
> > > > > descriptors early as with normal r/w descriptors and catching leaks of
> > > > > them prior to attempted usage.
> > > > 
> > > > I think this sounds like a good plan.
> > > 
> > > Handle files opened with flags 3 by checking ioctl permission.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
> 
> Fixes the problem I was seeing.  Applied to for-akpm.

Are you at least now seeing a FILE__IOCTL avc for mdadm?  If not why
would mdadm have that permission for /dev/null?

-Eric


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