From: cpebenito@tresys.com (Christopher J. PeBenito)
To: refpolicy@oss.tresys.com
Subject: [refpolicy] [PATCH v2 1/2] Allow all domains to read /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 15:59:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53ED150B.6080601@tresys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1408045633.8445.3.camel@x220.localdomain>
On 8/14/2014 3:47 PM, Dominick Grift wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-08-14 at 15:29 -0400, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
>
>> These two interfaces are overspecified. sysctl_vm_overcommit_t
>> shouldn't be included in the second parameter of the patterns
>> (read_files_pattern and rw_files_pattern) since the type is never used
>> on a directory.
>>
>
> I do not like associating these "secondary" rules with an type attribute
> as fundamental as domain.
I don't understand what you mean by "secondary". If all domains (at
least all those linked with glibc, which is usually all) require this
access, how is it secondary?
> domain type attribute is fundamental to the policy due to the neverallow
> rules that are associated with it.
>
> I want to be able to create "domains" that respect the neverallow rule
> but i do not want to be forced to use these "secondary" rules.
What neverallow is violated with these rules?
--
Chris PeBenito
Tresys Technology, LLC
www.tresys.com | oss.tresys.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-14 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-02 18:35 [refpolicy] [PATCH 0/2] Give access to /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory to all domains Vincent Brillault
2014-08-02 18:35 ` [refpolicy] [PATCH 1/2] Allow all domains to read /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory Vincent Brillault
2014-08-02 18:35 ` [refpolicy] [PATCH 2/2] Extend kernel_search_*_overcommit_sysctl search Vincent Brillault
2014-08-02 18:47 ` [refpolicy] [PATCH v2 0/2] Give access to /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory to all domains Vincent Brillault
2014-08-02 18:47 ` [refpolicy] [PATCH v2 1/2] Allow all domains to read /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory Vincent Brillault
2014-08-14 19:29 ` Christopher J. PeBenito
2014-08-14 19:47 ` Dominick Grift
2014-08-14 19:59 ` Christopher J. PeBenito [this message]
2014-08-02 18:47 ` [refpolicy] [PATCH v2 2/2] Extend kernel_search_*_overcommit_sysctl search Vincent Brillault
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