[refpolicy] How to handle glibc-triggered behavior?

[dac.override@gmail.com (Dominick Grift)]

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On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:53:16AM -0500, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> On 12/10/2015 10:40 AM, Dominick Grift wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 03:59:33PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> >> Hey,
> > 
> >> Le 21/12/14 13:15, Sven Vermeulen a ?crit :
> >>> glibc's malloc implementation, in multithreaded applications, might read
> >>> /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory to check if the heap can be shrunk or not
> >>> (when the allocated memory is part of the non-main arena). That means that
> >>> read access to sysctl_vm_t becomes a wide request.
> >>>
> >>> Not granting privileges might result in different memory behavior, where the
> >>> system administrator might have tuned/tweaked memory allocations on Linux,
> >>> but malloc() ignoring this due to SELinux denying access to the settings.
> >>>
> >>> I'm wondering how to properly tackle this. Granting this on a per-domain
> >>> level is probably not manageable, but granting this for all domains (through
> >>> the "domain" attribute) might be overshooting.
> >>>
> >>> Are there specific risks that I should take into account when granting read
> >>> access to sysctl_vm_t?
> >>>
> >> I'm bumping this again topic again.
> > 
> >> Is there anything blocking a fix for this?
> > 
> > if we decide to do anything like this then lets start by implementing a
> > proc_vm_overcommit_t type and associate that with
> > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory so that we have more control over this.
> 
> There are a couple things:
> * Yes, to address this, it would warrant adding a new type for the
> sysctl, though I'd probably call it sysctl_vm_overcommit_t.

Agreed, that was a "typo" on my end

> * This should trigger some auditing of domains that have access to
> sysctl_vm_t to see if it is only because of this sysctl, and if so,
> adjust the access accordingly.
> 
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