Re: selinux vs devtmpfs (vs udev)

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On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 11:22 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> On 08/31/2010 11:16 AM, Eric Paris wrote:

> > I suggest a third options: Calculate the default at startup and on every
> > policy load and fix object labels if they are the default.  I'm sure Dan
> > knows a code example of how to do the calculation.  The pseudocode looks
> > something like:
> 
> 
> > 
> > lookup the label on /dev
> > lookup the label on the initial task
> > ask the kernel what the resulting label on a file transition with those
> > two pieces of information will be.
> 
> 
> NOOOOO
> 
> libvirt is going in and changing fixed_disk_device_t:s0 to svirt_t:c0,c124
> 
> We do not want udev to see this and ask what label a device should have
> if libvirtd_t created a chr_file in device_t.

initial task == /sbin/init

actually I should look if the kernel init_cred (what devtmpfs uses to
make security decisions) is initrc_t or kernel_t.  I'm guessing it is
kernel_t but I'm not certain how that gets set.....

-Eric


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