Re: tmpfs /dev

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Russell Coker wrote:

I have got a working system with tmpfs /dev and with udev in the initrd. I modified /sbin/init to run the following script immediately after loading the policy:

#!/bin/sh
. /etc/selinux/config
/sbin/setfiles-mine /etc/selinux/$SELINUXTYPE/contexts/files/file_contexts /dev

Naturally we need to change the location of setfiles to /sbin from /usr/sbin if this is the solution we choose as this script will run before any file systems are mounted.

Below is the policy I added. I had already changed the type declarations to use the dev_filesystem attribute for everything that may occur under /dev (patch sent to the main SE Linux list). I have setfiles being run as kernel_t because I feel that running setfiles as kernel_t is better than granting setfiles_t more access than is otherwise required. This means that I have to grant kernel_t access to relabel the device nodes, no big deal IMHO as kernel_t generally has ultimate access anyway.

I relabeled /sbin/MAKEDEV as udev_exec_t so that it runs as udev_t when run from /sbin/start_udev and can do the things that it wants to do. This is a minor hack. Maybe it would be better to label /sbin/start_udev as udev_exec_t? That would remove the need to allow initrc_t to create sym-links under /dev.

avc: denied { getattr } for pid=1641 exe=/sbin/lvm.static path=/sbin/MAKEDEV dev=dm-0 ino=196261 scontext=system_u:system_r:lvm_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:udev_exec_t tclass=file

Why does lvm.static want to stat /sbin/MAKEDEV?  Seems strange to me.

Below is the policy I wrote to allow tmpfs /dev and udev in initrd. I haven't split it into all the relevant .te files because it's still an experiment at this stage. After some discussion I'll produce a release version.

# for tmpfs /dev
allow dev_filesystem tmpfs_t:filesystem associate;
allow kernel_t tmpfs_t:chr_file rw_file_perms;
allow kernel_t tmpfs_t:{ dir file lnk_file chr_file blk_file } { getattr relabel
from };
allow kernel_t device_t:{ dir lnk_file chr_file blk_file } relabelto;
allow kernel_t device_type:{ chr_file blk_file } relabelto;
allow kernel_t udev_tbl_t:file relabelto;
can_exec(kernel_t, { sbin_t setfiles_exec_t })
# for /dev/pts on tmpfs
allow mount_t tmpfs_t:dir mounton;
# for /sbin/MAKEDEV - why?
allow lvm_t udev_exec_t:file getattr;
# allow /sbin/start_udev to run ln
allow initrc_t device_t:lnk_file create_lnk_perms;




You will need to talk to Bill Nottingham about modifying /sbin/init to do this. They are not crazy about
putting additional code into /sbin/init since it is very hard to debug. They prefer rc.sysinit. They also do not
want to relabel the /dev file system if it is not a tmpfs, since with 8000 or more files it could take a while and
slow down the boot up. The modification that we are currently using only modifies rc.sysinit to do a restorecon
on /dev/* when it is tmpfs and adds a couple of allows for hostname, init, mount and consoletype to use tmpfs_t.


Dan

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