* Re: Wrong audit message type when policy is reloaded
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@ 2015-12-10 17:53 ` Laurent Bigonville
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From: Laurent Bigonville @ 2015-12-10 17:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-audit; +Cc: selinux
I guess I should have CCed the linux-audit mailing list from the start.
As said in my initial mail (see bellow) wheb SELinux user object manager
are reloading the policy, an audit message with a wrong type is logged
USER_AVC vs USER_MAC_POLICY_LOAD.
Le 06/11/15 17:29, Stephen Smalley a écrit :
> On 11/06/2015 11:10 AM, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When the policy is reloaded, systemd and dbus are sending a USER_AVC
>> audit event instead of a USER_MAC_POLICY_LOAD one.
>>
>> Looking at an other object manager (the xserver) it uses the following
>> code:
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/Xext/xselinux_hooks.c#n300
>>
>> Can we really link SELINUX_INFO to AUDIT_USER_MAC_POLICY_LOAD? Is there
>> a better way to achieve this?
>>
>> An downstream bug has been opened:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195330
>
> I think when they introduced the audit support, they should have added
> a new type value in libselinux for MAC_POLICY_LOAD, and then they
> could have handled this cleanly in their callback functions. That is
> what I would do. I guess now we have to figure out how to do so
> compatibly...
>
>
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