Re: [PATCH v3] libsemanage: sync filesystem with sandbox

[Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com>]

Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss@m4x.org> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 12:53 PM Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Commit 331a109f91ea ("libsemanage: fsync final files before rename")
>> added fsync() for policy files and improved situation when something
>> unexpected happens right after rename(). However the module store could
>> be affected as well. After the following steps module files could be 0
>> size:
>>
>> 1. Run `semanage fcontext -a -t var_t "/tmp/abc"`
>> 2. Force shutdown the server during the command is run, or right after
>>    it's finished
>> 3. Boot the system and look for empty files:
>>     # find /var/lib/selinux/targeted/ -type f -size 0 | wc -l
>>     1266
>>
>> It looks like this situation can be avoided if the filesystem with the
>> sandbox is sync()ed before we start to rename() directories in the
>> store.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com>
>
> Acked-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss@m4x.org>
>

Merged.

> Thanks!
> Nicolas
>
>> ---
>>
>> - syncfs() moved before rename() dance
>>
>>  libsemanage/src/semanage_store.c | 13 +++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/libsemanage/src/semanage_store.c b/libsemanage/src/semanage_store.c
>> index cd5e46bb2401..c6a736fe2d26 100644
>> --- a/libsemanage/src/semanage_store.c
>> +++ b/libsemanage/src/semanage_store.c
>> @@ -1736,6 +1736,19 @@ static int semanage_commit_sandbox(semanage_handle_t * sh)
>>         }
>>         close(fd);
>>
>> +       /* sync changes in sandbox to filesystem */
>> +       fd = open(sandbox, O_DIRECTORY);
>> +       if (fd == -1) {
>> +               ERR(sh, "Error while opening %s for syncfs(): %d", sandbox, errno);
>> +               return -1;
>> +       }
>> +       if (syncfs(fd) == -1) {
>> +               ERR(sh, "Error while syncing %s to filesystem: %d", sandbox, errno);
>> +               close(fd);
>> +               return -1;
>> +       }
>> +       close(fd);
>> +
>>         retval = commit_number;
>>
>>         if (semanage_get_active_lock(sh) < 0) {
>> --
>> 2.30.0
>>