[refpolicy] new runtime udev directory tree (was Re: ANN: Reference Policy Release)

[guido@trentalancia.com (Guido Trentalancia)]

Oh yes and the commit was exactly from you on Jul 18th ! Thanks very
much Martin !

I didn't notice that, because I was matching against ^/run.

It's all explained now, sorry to the list about the confusion.

Regards,

Guido

On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 20:47 +0100, Martin Orr wrote:
> On Tue 26 Jul 20:07:29 2011, Guido Trentalancia wrote:
> 
> > Thanks very much Christopher for the new release !
> >
> > Just a quick reminder that it seems to me that latest git (and thus
> > implicitly the new release), do not cater proper file contexts
> > definitions yet for new udev directory /run.
> 
> Git refpolicy and the new release contain:
> /var/run/udev(/.*)?	gen_context(system_u:object_r:udev_tbl_t,s0)
> 
> As explained in the relevant commit message, this is intended to label  
> /run/udev rather than /var/run/udev.
> 
> You need to use some method outside the refpolicy to ensure that  
> directories in /run are labelled the same as the corresponding  
> directories in /var/run.  The easiest is to put
> /run /var/run
> in /etc/selinux/$NAME/contexts/files/file_contexts.subs.
> 
> > Latest udev releases are moving from /dev/.udev to /run (still optional
> > at this transition stage but perhaps it will become mandatory one day).
> >
> > In terms of release numbers should be at least any udev-17? (but
> > possibly also some of the udev-16?).
> >
> > At the moment, I see:
> >
> > # ls -lZ /dev/.udev/
> > drwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:udev_tbl_t:s0
> > ...
> >
> > # grep ^/run policy/modules/kernel/files.fc
> > /run			-d	gen_context(system_u:object_r:var_run_t,s0-mls_systemhigh)
> > /run/.*				gen_context(system_u:object_r:var_run_t,s0)
> > /run/.*\.*pid			<<none>>
> > /run/lock(/.*)?			gen_context(system_u:object_r:var_lock_t,s0)
> >
> > # grep ^/var\/run policy/modules/kernel/files.fc
> > /var/run			-d	gen_context(system_u:object_r:var_run_t,s0-mls_systemhigh)
> > /var/run			-l	gen_context(system_u:object_r:var_run_t,s0)
> > /var/run/.*			gen_context(system_u:object_r:var_run_t,s0)
> > /var/run/.*\.*pid		<<none>>
> > /var/run/motd		--	gen_context(system_u:object_r:etc_runtime_t,s0)
> >
> > If the above is confirmed, we have an inconsistency for /run because it would
> > just be a duplicate for /var/run which potentially conflicts with new udev.
> 
> /run is supposed to be a duplicate of /var/run (they should be the  
> same directory via either a symlink or a bind mount).  Refpolicy  
> currently does not have fcs for /run so you need to use  
> file_contexts.subs as above to label /run.  As an alternative method,  
> in the Debian policy, Russell used Perl to add duplicates of all the  
> /var/run lines with /run instead.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Martin Orr
>