On 2022/8/30 9:20, Mimi Zohar wrote:
On Sat, 2022-08-27 at 17:57 +0800, Guozihua (Scott) wrote:
On 2022/8/25 21:02, Mimi Zohar wrote:
On Wed, 2022-08-24 at 09:56 +0800, Guozihua (Scott) wrote:
On 2022/8/24 9:26, Mimi Zohar wrote:
On Tue, 2022-08-23 at 21:28 +0800, Guozihua (Scott) wrote:
On 2022/8/23 21:21, Mimi Zohar wrote:
On Tue, 2022-08-23 at 16:12 +0800, Guozihua (Scott) wrote:
The question is whether we're waiting for the SELinux policy to change
from ESTALE or whether it is the number of SELinux based IMA policy
rules or some combination of the two. Retrying three times seems to be
random. If SELinux waited for ESTALE to change, then it would only be
dependent on the time it took to update the SELinux based IMA policy
rules.
We are waiting for ima_lsm_update_rules() to finish re-initializing all
the LSM based rules.
Fine. Hopefully retrying a maximum of 3 times is sufficient.
Well, at least this should greatly reduce the chance of this issue from
happening.
Agreed
This would be the best we I can think of without locking and
busy waiting. Maybe we can also add delays before we retry. Maybe you
got any other thought in mind?
Another option would be to re-introduce the equivalent of the "lazy"
LSM update on -ESTALE, but without updating the policy rule, as the
notifier callback will eventually get to it.
For this to happen we would need a way to tell when we are able to
continue with the retry though.
Previously with the lazy update, on failure security_filter_rule_init()
was called before the retry. To avoid locking or detecting when to
continue, another option would be to call to
security_filter_rule_init() with a local copy of the rule. The retry
would be based on a local copy of the rule.
Eventually the registered callback will complete, so we don't need to
be concerned about updating the actual rules.
Is it possible to cause race condition though? With this, the notifier
path seems to be unnecessary.
I don't see how there would be a race condition. The notifier callback
is the normal method of updating the policy rules. Hopefully -ESTALE
isn't something that happens frequently.
The notifier callback uses RCU to update rules, I think we should mimic
that behavior if we are to update individual rules in the matching logic.
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Best
GUO Zihua
