Re: strange pam selinux issue

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Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 9:36 AM Dominick Grift
> <dominick.grift@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 09:22:42AM -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
>> > Are you using libselinux with or without the commit to stop using
>> > security_compute_user()?
>> > If still using security_compute_user(), what does compute_user
>> > sys.id:sys.role:sys.isid:s0 wheel.id display?
>> > If you don't have compute_user (it is in libselinux/utils but not sure
>> > Fedora packages it), you can also just
>> > strace -s 4096 -o trace.txt selinuxconlist wheel.id sys.id:sys.role:sys.isid:s0
>> > and see what it read back from /sys/fs/selinux/user.
>>
>> Thanks, it does not even seems to read /etc/selinux/dssp3-mcs/contexts/users/wheel.id...
>> I am not if my libselinux has or has not security_compute_user():
>>
>> # rpm -qa libselinux
>> libselinux-3.0-3.fc32.x86_64
>>
>> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/fs/selinux/user", O_RDWR|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
>> write(3, "sys.id:sys.role:sys.isid:s0 wheel.id", 36) = -1 ERANGE (Numerical result out of range)
>
> This shows that your libselinux is still calling
> security_compute_user() from get_ordered_context_list().
> In this case, because the source context is allowed to transition to
> many other contexts, the result returned via
> /sys/fs/selinux/user would exceed the maximum size supported by the
> kernel interface (one page of contexts),
> and therefore it fails.  Then get_ordered_context_list() falls back to
> the failsafe_context.
>
> If you update to libselinux git, you will stop using
> security_compute_user() and hence /sys/fs/selinux/user entirely.

FYI I've just built libselinux-3.0-4.fc32 [1] and libselinux-3.0-4.fc33
[2] with the security_compute_user() patch applied.

[1] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1474378
[2] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1474377

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