Date:	Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:12:19 -0500
From:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, adobriyan@...il.com,
	auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jmorris@...ei.org, eparis@...isplace.org
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] networking probs in next-20081203

On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 13:00 -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 14:32 -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 10:21 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> >> > From: Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>
> >> > Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:11:20 -0500
> >> > 
> >> > > On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 20:52 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> >> > > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:41:24AM -0800, Kok, Auke wrote:
> >> > > > > maybe try disabling selinux?
> >> > > > 
> >> > > > This will work. :^)
> >> > > 
> >> > > SELinux didn't change here.  /proc/net did.
> >> > 
> >> > We've been through this before...
> >> 
> >> Yep, and we altered SELinux so that they could freely change proc
> >> directories into symlinks to support the earlier proc/net change.  But
> >> now proc/net has turned into its own separate filesystem, with its own
> >> filesystem type, which is unknown to SELinux.  Thus causing it to be
> >> left unlabeled and inaccessible to confined domains.
> >> 
> >> > And it is a usability issue that people can't change how procfs
> >> > directories work without requiring the user to update their selinux
> >> > policies first.
> >> 
> >> Introducing a new filesystem type (proc/net) without teaching SELinux
> >> how to handle it is always going to produce denials on accessing that
> >> filesystem.  If they left the filesystem type string as "proc" it
> >> wouldn't be a problem.
> >
> > Actually, that isn't quite correct as it wouldn't generate the same
> > name/key for lookup.
> >
> >>   Or they can adjust the SELinux code to
> >> automagically handle it.  Regardless, we didn't break anything.
> >
> > Looking back, I see that they did in fact change selinux as part of the
> > patch to make proc/net its own filesystem, although unfortunately not in
> > a way that will quite work.  But no selinux maintainer was ever cc'd on
> > that patch.
> 
> Yes.  Apologies.  The whole thing started with some stupid security
> drama and so things tried to happen outside of the normal channels
> and things just went wrong, and got lost...
> 
> When I resent and started things through the normal channels I forgot
> to cc you guys.  My apologies.
> 
> Which piece of selinux magic did I miss?
> 
> In particular can you tell if this was a code bug or a logic bug?

I suspect we need the following un-tested diff to map all of these proc/
filesystem types to "proc" for the policy lookup at filesystem mount
time.

diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index 9155fa9..3c3ceb7 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -703,7 +703,7 @@ static int selinux_set_mnt_opts(struct super_block *sb,
 		sbsec->proc = 1;
 
 	/* Determine the labeling behavior to use for this filesystem type. */
-	rc = security_fs_use(sb->s_type->name, &sbsec->behavior, &sbsec->sid);
+	rc = security_fs_use(sbsec->proc ? "proc" : sb->s_type->name, &sbsec->behavior, &sbsec->sid);
 	if (rc) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: security_fs_use(%s) returned %d\n",
 		       __func__, sb->s_type->name, rc);

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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