On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 5:16 PM Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 5:35 PM Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 10:49 AM Stephen Smalley > > <stephen.smalley.work@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 8:52 AM Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 8:47 AM Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > We deprecated the SELinux runtime disable functionality in Linux > > > > > v5.6, add a five second sleep to anyone using it to help draw their > > > > > attention to the deprecation. > > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > --- > > > > > security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 2 ++ > > > > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > > > > > > > Warning: while trivial, I've done no testing beyond a quick compile > > > > yet. I'm posting this now to see what everyone thinks about starting > > > > to make it a bit more painful to use the runtime disable > > > > functionality. > > > > > > I'm concerned about how users will experience and respond to this > > > change (and Linus too). Currently SELinux runtime disable is the > > > method used by distro installers (at least Fedora/RHEL and > > > derivatives) when SELinux-disabled is selected at install time and it > > > is the approach documented in distro documentation for how to disable > > > SELinux. Hence, we'd be inflicting pain on the end users for what is > > > essentially a distro choice. > > > > I delayed my response in hopes the Fedora folks would also comment, > > but I'm not seeing anything. > > > > All this patch does is start executing on the deprecation path we laid > > out when we marked the functionality as deprecated. When we decided > > to do this we had buy-in from the Fedora folks (the only ones who > > still use this option); if this is a problem for them then I would > > like to understand what changed, and why. If it is a matter of this > > coming too quickly, that's okay, we can push this out another release > > or two. We can even drop the sleep down to a second or two. Both the > > timing of introducing the delay, and the length of the delay itself, > > aren't important to me; it's the fact that we are adding a delay and > > moving forward on the deprecation (just as we said we would). > > > > What were you envisioning when we marked this as deprecated Stephen? > > If not this, what were you thinking we would do? > > I feel like we've already communicated the fact that it is being > deprecated to those who need to know (Fedora maintainers), and we > already have it displaying an error message for those who look at > kernel logs. So I was fine with just waiting some number of kernel > release cycles (not sure what is typical for these kinds of things) > and then just changing selinux_write_disable() to just return 0 > without doing anything and dropping the selinux_disable() code and the > config option. I think we'll want it to return 0 rather than an error > so that systemd will still unmount selinuxfs and act as if SELinux has > been disabled (which in turn will case everything else to act as if > SELinux has been disabled). The kernel will be in permissive mode > with no policy loaded in that situation, so except for some corner > cases everything should just work. That seems the least disruptive > path for end users. Distro maintainers will hopefully get around to > using selinux=0 instead but that may lag. +1. I've been following this and was going to reply with what Stephen is saying, just less eloquently.
