Re: Developing a SELinux policy for antivirus - Activating a boolean variable when another has been actived

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On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 16:23 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 16:18 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> > On 06/25/2010 06:30 AM, Dominick Grift wrote:
> > > On 06/25/2010 12:11 PM, Alice Mynona wrote:
> > >> Stephen Smalley schrieb am 24.06.2010 19:33 Uhr:
> > >>> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 13:12 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > >>>> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 17:01 +0200, Alice Mynona wrote:
> > >>>>> Hello,
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> during the developing of a SELinux module I got the following error messages when executing "audit2allow -a -l"
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> ...
> > >>>>> libsepol.context_from_record: type antivirus_t is not defined
> > >>>>> libsepol.context_from_record: could not create context structure
> > >>>>> libsepol.context_from_string: could not create context structure
> > >>>>> libsepol.sepol_context_to_sid: could not convert unconfined_u:unconfined_r:antivirus_t:s0 to sid
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> "antivirus_t" is a domain I have defined in my module:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> type antivirus_t;
> > >>>>> domain_type(antivirus_t)
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> I have already removed the module (semodule -r antivirus.pp && semodule -R) and did a file context repair afterwards (fixfiles restore). The error still exists. 
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> I have reinstalled the policy (yum reinstall selinux-policy-*), but the problem remains. I have also taken a look at "file_contexts" (cd /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active && grep antivirus_t file_contexts*), but there's no "antivirus_t" anymore.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Can you help me to find the cause of the problem? I don't know how to debug libsepol-messages.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> I'm using "selinux-policy-targeted-3.6.32-118.fc12.noarch".
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Sounds like the -l option to audit2allow isn't working correctly, so
> > >>>> that instead of only processing audit messages since the last policy
> > >>>> reload, you are still processing the audit messages from when that
> > >>>> policy module was installed, and unsurprisingly it cannot map those
> > >>>> contexts since you removed the module.  That would be a bug in
> > >>>> audit2allow/sepolgen.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Workaround would be to use ausearch to select the desired range of
> > >>>> messsages specifically, e.g.
> > >>>> /sbin/ausearch -m AVC -ts today | audit2allow
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> I did a reload today at 08:36:00 a.m. (semodule -R). Round about two and half hours later I checked the auditlog:
> > >>
> > >> ausearch -m AVC --start 25.06.2010 08:36:00 --end 25.06.2010 11:00:00
> > >>
> > >> Only messages from ssh_t (success=yes). Fine. But "audit2allow -a -l" still throws error messages:
> > >>
> > >> ...
> > >> libsepol.context_from_record: type antivirus_t is not defined
> > >> libsepol.context_from_record: could not create context structure
> > >> libsepol.context_from_string: could not create context structure
> > >> libsepol.sepol_context_to_sid: could not convert unconfined_u:unconfined_r:antivirus_t:s0 to sid
> > >> ...
> > >>
> > >>> Dan - looks like you pushed the audit2why analyze calls down into
> > >>> sepolgen while it is parsing the messages.  But this means that all
> > >>> messages will be analyzed even if the user specified -l.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> I will wait for Dan's answer :-).
> > >>
> > >> Problem solved. @All: Thanks for your help.
> > >>
> > >> Best regards,
> > >>
> > >> Alice
> > >>
> > >> p.s.:
> > >> I still don't know how to debug sepol-messages. Can you give me a hint?
> > > 
> > > I think it is not just with the -l option as i had similar output today
> > > by using plain ausearch -m avc -ts recent | audit2allow:
> > > 
> > > libsepol.context_from_record: invalid security context:
> > > "staff_u:staff_r:mozilla_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023"
> > > libsepol.context_from_record: could not create context structure
> > > libsepol.context_from_string: could not create context structure
> > > libsepol.sepol_context_to_sid: could not convert
> > > staff_u:staff_r:mozilla_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 to sid
> > > libsepol.context_from_record: invalid security context:
> > > "staff_u:staff_r:mozilla_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023"
> > > 
> > > 
> > >>
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> > > 
> > Yes I want the analysis to show up in audit2allow, If libsemanage would
> > just shut up, we really should ignore the errors.
> 
> Then use semanage_msg_set_callback(hnd, NULL, NULL);

Actually I think you want sepol_msg_set_callback() since audit2why is
directly using libsepol, right?

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency


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