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From: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
To: selinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: paul@paul-moore.com, Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] nspawn: add --selinux-namespace option to unshare SELinux namespace
Date: Mon,  6 Oct 2025 09:25:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251006132508.3430-2-stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com> (raw)

RFC only, this demonstrates how to use the selinux_unshare(3) API
added to libselinux by
https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/20251003191922.5326-2-stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com/
and integrates it into systemd-nspawn to support launching containers
with their own SELinux namespace.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
---
v2 drops the setting of the SELINUXNS environment variable since systemd
can instead use the new is_selinux_unshared(3) API introduced by the
above libselinux patch.

 src/nspawn/nspawn.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/nspawn/nspawn.c b/src/nspawn/nspawn.c
index ab8746c442..4c5f3eb812 100644
--- a/src/nspawn/nspawn.c
+++ b/src/nspawn/nspawn.c
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ static char *arg_machine = NULL;     /* The name used by the host to refer to th
 static char *arg_hostname = NULL;    /* The name the payload sees by default */
 static const char *arg_selinux_context = NULL;
 static const char *arg_selinux_apifs_context = NULL;
+static bool arg_selinux_namespace = false;
 static char *arg_slice = NULL;
 static bool arg_private_network; /* initialized depending on arg_privileged in run() */
 static bool arg_read_only = false;
@@ -437,6 +438,7 @@ static int help(void) {
                "  -L --selinux-apifs-context=SECLABEL\n"
                "                            Set the SELinux security context to be used by\n"
                "                            API/tmpfs file systems in the container\n"
+               "     --selinux-namespace    Unshare SELinux namespace\n"
                "\n%3$sResources:%4$s\n"
                "     --rlimit=NAME=LIMIT    Set a resource limit for the payload\n"
                "     --oom-score-adjust=VALUE\n"
@@ -654,6 +656,7 @@ static int parse_argv(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                 ARG_OVERLAY,
                 ARG_OVERLAY_RO,
                 ARG_INACCESSIBLE,
+                ARG_SELINUX_NAMESPACE,
                 ARG_SHARE_SYSTEM,
                 ARG_REGISTER,
                 ARG_KEEP_UNIT,
@@ -731,6 +734,7 @@ static int parse_argv(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                 { "setenv",                 required_argument, NULL, 'E'                        },
                 { "selinux-context",        required_argument, NULL, 'Z'                        },
                 { "selinux-apifs-context",  required_argument, NULL, 'L'                        },
+                { "selinux-namespace",      no_argument,       NULL, ARG_SELINUX_NAMESPACE      },
                 { "quiet",                  no_argument,       NULL, 'q'                        },
                 { "share-system",           no_argument,       NULL, ARG_SHARE_SYSTEM           }, /* not documented */
                 { "register",               required_argument, NULL, ARG_REGISTER               },
@@ -1005,6 +1009,10 @@ static int parse_argv(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                         arg_selinux_apifs_context = optarg;
                         break;
 
+                case ARG_SELINUX_NAMESPACE:
+                        arg_selinux_namespace = true;
+                        break;
+
                 case ARG_READ_ONLY:
                         arg_read_only = true;
                         arg_settings_mask |= SETTING_READ_ONLY;
@@ -3502,6 +3510,12 @@ static int inner_child(
         if (r < 0)
                 return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to apply resource limit RLIMIT_%s: %m", rlimit_to_string(which_failed));
 
+#if HAVE_SELINUX
+        if (arg_selinux_namespace)
+                if (selinux_unshare() < 0)
+                        return log_error_errno(errno, "selinux_unshare() failed: %m");
+#endif
+
 #if HAVE_SECCOMP
         if (arg_seccomp) {
 
-- 
2.51.0


             reply	other threads:[~2025-10-06 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-06 13:25 Stephen Smalley [this message]
2025-10-06 13:25 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] systemd: perform SELinux initialization again in a SELinux namespace Stephen Smalley
2025-10-06 14:02   ` Stephen Smalley

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