Re: [PATCH] apparmor: allow getattr on usb devices

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On 11/17/22 09:42, christian.ehrhardt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> For the handling of usb we already allow plenty of read access,
> but so far /sys/bus/usb/devices only needed read access to the directory
> to enumerate the symlinks in there that point to the actual entries via
> relative links to ../../../devices/.
> 
> But in more recent systemd with updated libraries a program might do
> getattr calls on those symlinks. And while symlinks in apparmor usually
> do not matter, as it is the effective target of an access that has to be
> allowed, here the getattr calls are on the links themselves.
> 
> On USB hostdev usage that causes a set of denials like:
>  apparmor="DENIED" operation="getattr" class="file"
>  name="/sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1" comm="qemu-system-x86"
>  requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" ...
> 
> It is safe to read the links, therefore add a rule to allow it to
> the block of rules that covers the usb related access.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  src/security/apparmor/libvirt-qemu | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx>

Michal




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