[refpolicy] [PATCH 1/5] dontaudit mount writes to newly mounted filesystems

[cpebenito@tresys.com (Christopher J. PeBenito)]

On 11/08/10 20:25, Chris Richards wrote:
> As of util-linux-n 2.18, the mount utility now attempts to write to the root
> of newly mounted filesystems.  It does this in an attempt to ensure that the
> r/w status of a filesystem as shown in mtab is correct.  To detect whether
> a filesystem is r/w, mount calls access() with the W_OK argument.  This
> results in an AVC denial with current policy.  As a fallback, mount also
> attempts to modify the access time of the directory being mounted on if
> the call to access() fails.  As mount already possesses the necessary
> privileges, the modification of the access time succeeds (at least on systems
> with the futimens() function, which has existed in linux since kernel 2.6.22
> and glibc since version 2.6, or about July 2007).

This set is merged, with a few trivial tweaks.

> Signed-off-by: Chris Richards <gizmo@giz-works.com>
> ---
>  policy/modules/kernel/devices.if |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/policy/modules/kernel/devices.if b/policy/modules/kernel/devices.if
> index 99482ca..15a7bef 100644
> --- a/policy/modules/kernel/devices.if
> +++ b/policy/modules/kernel/devices.if
> @@ -3704,6 +3704,24 @@ interface(`dev_write_sysfs_dirs',`
>  
>  ########################################
>  ## <summary>
> +##	Do not audit attempts to write in a sysfs directory.
> +## </summary>
> +## <param name="domain">
> +##	<summary>
> +##	Domain to not audit.
> +##	</summary>
> +## </param>
> +#
> +interface(`dev_dontaudit_write_sysfs_dirs',`
> +	gen_require(`
> +		type sysfs_t;
> +	')
> +
> +	dontaudit $1 sysfs_t:dir write;
> +')
> +
> +########################################
> +## <summary>
>  ##	Read hardware state information.
>  ## </summary>
>  ## <desc>


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