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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


  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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