> On 31 Aug 2016, at 6:52 AM, Paul Bolton <paul.a.bolton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> On 30/08/16 20:19, Stephen Smalley wrote: >>> On 08/30/2016 01:03 PM, Paul Bolton wrote: >>> >>> Why is the target context for evaluation kernel_t and not devlog_t? >>> Surely it should be devlog_t and therefore pass the constraint rule as a >>> trusted object? >> >> sendto is a permission check between the two socket labels, not to be >> confused with the file label. When you send on a local/Unix socket, you >> need write permission to the socket file (if using the file namespace; >> if using the abstract namespace, there is no equivalent check) and you >> need sendto to the peer socket (which typically will be labeled the same >> as the receiving process). So the receiving process is running in >> kernel_t, or was at the time it created the socket. >> >> There are two separate kernel objects when dealing with Unix sockets - >> the file and the socket itself. > > Thanks for the explanation. > > So, I guess in my example AVC, after a bit of digging to get the CentOS > src patches, where we have the following added to sshd.te, it is the > mls_process_write_all_levels() that clears that AVC. > > policy-rhel-7.2-base.patch: > -- snip -- > +mls_trusted_object(sshd_t) > +mls_process_write_all_levels(sshd_t) > +mls_dbus_send_all_levels(sshd_t) > -- snip -- > > -- > Paul > ---- > http://blog.m0noc.com/ | https://keybase.io/m0noc > 4329 E4C5 71F3 58B2 2246 D04D 25DA 39C2 3876 FE3D > _______________________________________________ > Selinux mailing list > Selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe, send email to Selinux-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. > To get help, send an email containing "help" to Selinux-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. Have you managed to correct the incorrect labelling of /etc? When I've tried to use the MLS policy on RHEL/CentOS 7-7.2, that has stopped logins from working when running in enforcing mode. _______________________________________________ Selinux mailing list Selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send email to Selinux-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. To get help, send an email containing "help" to Selinux-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.