On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 12:04 PM Mike Palmiotto <mike.palmiotto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 6:42 PM Mike Palmiotto > <mike.palmiotto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 5:35 PM Stephen Smalley > > <stephen.smalley.work@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 5:20 PM Mike Palmiotto > > > <mike.palmiotto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > <snip> > > > > Do you think we should go ahead and completely swap in sestatus? I was > > > > just worried about breaking userspace object managers that are > > > > currently using netlink threads by default, for instance > > > > systemd-dbusd. I can spend some more time getting those to work with > > > > the status page if you think that's worthwhile. > > > > > > I'd be interested in understanding the impact of such a change on > > > existing userspace object managers. If we can switch the default > > > behavior for applications that are not explicitly using > > > avc_netlink_*() interfaces themselves (e.g. they are only using > > > selinux_check_access or avc_has_perm), then that would be beneficial > > > since I think it fully removes the need for a system call on the AVC > > > cache-hit code path. > > > > I'll have to do a bit of digging to see how this will affect dbus, et > > al. On first blush, it looks like they're just doing > > avc_netlink_check_nb() in their watch thread. Presumably other object > > managers are doing something similar so we would just need to make > > sure there is a netlink fd available. > > So it looks like dbus (at least) is directly checking for a netlink > socket[1], so just doing away with the avc_netlink_open call wouldn't > work out. My thinking is we have two options: > > 1) Add a new seopt to use sestatus and let userspace object managers opt-in > > 2) Call both selinux_status_open and avc_netlink_open in > avc_init_internal. This would satisfy the hard requirement for a > netlink socket. Then we can default to using sestatus in all of the > netlink processing paths, as you suggested in your last reply. We > could > > Option 2 seems better from the standpoint of using sestatus by > default, but it looks like recvfrom will never be called and the > messages will just sit in kernel memory. > > I'm inclined to go with option 1 at this point. > > [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/-/blob/master/bus/selinux.c#L269 Couldn't we change avc_netlink_acquire_fd() to test whether fd hasn't yet been set (i.e. == -1) and call avc_netlink_open() in that case? Then dbus would still gets its netlink fd as expected but we wouldn't need to open it inside of avc_init?
