From: "Christian Göttsche" <cgzones@googlemail.com>
To: selinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] libselinux: do not use status page fallback mode internally
Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 12:56:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210510105648.14635-4-cgzones@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210510105648.14635-1-cgzones@googlemail.com>
Currently `avc_init_internal()`, called by `avc_open(3)` and
`avc_init(3)`, does open the SELinux status page with fallback mode
enabled.
Quote from man:selinux_status_open(3):
In this case, this function tries to open a netlink socket using
.BR avc_netlink_open (3) and overwrite corresponding callbacks
(setenforce and policyload). Thus, we need to pay attention to the
interaction with these interfaces, when fallback mode is enabled.
Calling `selinux_status_open` internally in fallback mode is bad, cause
it overrides callbacks from client applications or the internal
fallback-callbacks get overridden by client applications.
Note that `avc_open(3)` gets called under the hood by
`selinux_check_access(3)` without checking for failure.
Also the status page is available since Linux 2.6.37, so failures of
`selinux_status_open(3)` in non-fallback mode should only be caused by
policies not allowing the client process to open/read/map
the /sys/fs/selinux/status file.
Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
---
libselinux/src/avc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/libselinux/src/avc.c b/libselinux/src/avc.c
index 8314d7ba..daaedbc6 100644
--- a/libselinux/src/avc.c
+++ b/libselinux/src/avc.c
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static int avc_init_internal(const char *prefix,
avc_enforcing = rc;
}
- rc = selinux_status_open(1);
+ rc = selinux_status_open(0);
if (rc < 0) {
avc_log(SELINUX_ERROR,
"%s: could not open selinux status page: %d (%s)\n",
--
2.31.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-10 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-10 10:56 [PATCH 0/3] libselinux: quirks of the status page Christian Göttsche
2021-05-10 10:56 ` [PATCH 1/3] libselinux: avc_destroy(3) closes " Christian Göttsche
2021-06-01 13:53 ` Petr Lautrbach
2021-05-10 10:56 ` [PATCH 2/3] libselinux: make selinux_status_open(3) reentrant Christian Göttsche
2021-06-01 13:53 ` Petr Lautrbach
2021-05-10 10:56 ` Christian Göttsche [this message]
2021-06-01 14:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] libselinux: do not use status page fallback mode internally Petr Lautrbach
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