Patch inclusion/backport request (BZ #1084829)

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Hello,

I'd like to request a backport of the patch below, currently merged upstream 
and targeted for 3.15.  The patch fixes a number of problems relating to 
SELinux and systemd-sysctl which are starting to appear for F20 in the RH 
bugzilla.  One such example can be seen here:

 * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084829

If there is anything I can do to help get this patch into Fedora let me know.

Thanks,
-Paul

  commit f64410ec665479d7b4b77b7519e814253ed0f686
  Author: Paul Moore <pmoore@xxxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Wed Mar 19 16:46:18 2014 -0400

    selinux: correctly label /proc inodes in use before the policy is loaded
    
    This patch is based on an earlier patch by Eric Paris, he describes
    the problem below:
    
      "If an inode is accessed before policy load it will get placed on a
       list of inodes to be initialized after policy load.  After policy
       load we call inode_doinit() which calls inode_doinit_with_dentry()
       on all inodes accessed before policy load.  In the case of inodes
       in procfs that means we'll end up at the bottom where it does:
    
         /* Default to the fs superblock SID. */
         isec->sid = sbsec->sid;
    
         if ((sbsec->flags & SE_SBPROC) && !S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) {
                 if (opt_dentry) {
                         isec->sclass = inode_mode_to_security_class(...)
                         rc = selinux_proc_get_sid(opt_dentry,
                                                   isec->sclass,
                                                   &sid);
                         if (rc)
                                 goto out_unlock;
                         isec->sid = sid;
                 }
         }
    
       Since opt_dentry is null, we'll never call selinux_proc_get_sid()
       and will leave the inode labeled with the label on the superblock.
       I believe a fix would be to mimic the behavior of xattrs.  Look
       for an alias of the inode.  If it can't be found, just leave the
       inode uninitialized (and pick it up later) if it can be found, we
       should be able to call selinux_proc_get_sid() ..."
    
    On a system exhibiting this problem, you will notice a lot of files in
    /proc with the generic "proc_t" type (at least the ones that were
    accessed early in the boot), for example:
    
       # ls -Z /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax | awk '{ print $4 " " $5 }'
       system_u:object_r:proc_t:s0 /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
    
    However, with this patch in place we see the expected result:
    
       # ls -Z /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax | awk '{ print $4 " " $5 }'
       system_u:object_r:sysctl_kernel_t:s0 /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
    
    Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>

    security/selinux/hooks.c |   36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
    1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) 

-- 
paul moore
security and virtualization @ redhat
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