linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] security: selinux: allow per-file labeling for cgroupfs

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Message-ID: <4835d22f-2ec2-0dd8-39a3-562335682568@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2017 18:05:55 -0500
From:   Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@...hat.com>
To:     Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
        Antonio Murdaca <amurdaca@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        Antonio Murdaca <runcom@...hat.com>, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov,
        Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] security: selinux: allow per-file labeling for cgroupfs



On 02/09/2017 06:04 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 5:32 PM, Antonio Murdaca <amurdaca@...hat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 9, 2017 20:23, "Paul Moore" <paul@...l-moore.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Antonio Murdaca <amurdaca@...hat.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Feb 9, 2017 17:14, "Paul Moore" <paul@...l-moore.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Antonio Murdaca <amurdaca@...hat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> From: Antonio Murdaca <runcom@...hat.com>
>>>>
>>>> This patch allows genfscon per-file labeling for cgroupfs. For instance,
>>>> this allows to label the "release_agent" file within each
>>>> cgroup mount and limit writes to it.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Antonio Murdaca <amurdaca@...hat.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  security/selinux/hooks.c | 2 ++
>>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>> This was already merged ... ?
>>>
>>>
>>> This is adding cgroup and cgroup2 to the other whitelist (afaict).
>> Yes, my apologies, I read this patch too quickly and confused it with
>> the previous cgroups patch.
>>
>> Just to set expectations, this patch is too late for the upcoming
>> merge window, we can consider it in a few weeks once the merge window
>> has closed.  This should give you some time to do some further testing
>> (hint, hint).
>>
>>
>> Sure, I'm going to test this and add tests in selinux-testsuite as well
> Great, thank you.
>
No problem on waiting for this patch.  Stephen asked for this, but this is
not something we are currently planning on using with containers.