Re: [PATCH v3] libsemanage: Fall back to semanage_copy_dir when rename() fails

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On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 1:01 PM Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In some circumstances, like semanage-store being on overlayfs, rename()
> could fail with EXDEV - Invalid cross-device link. This is due to the
> fact that overlays doesn't support rename() if source and target are not
> on the same layer, e.g. in containers built from several layers. Even
> though it's not atomic operation, it's better to try to copy files from
> src to dst on our own in this case. Next rebuild will probably not fail
> as the new directories will be on the same layer.
>
> Fixes: https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/issues/343
>
> Reproducer:
>
>     $ cd selinux1
>
>     $ cat Dockerfile
>     FROM fedora:35
>     RUN dnf install -y selinux-policy selinux-policy-targeted
>
>     $ podman build -t localhost/selinux . --no-cache
>
>     $ cd ../selinux2
>
>     $ cat Dockerfile
>     FROM localhost/selinux
>     RUN semodule -B
>
>     $ podman build -t localhost/selinux2 . --no-cache
>     STEP 2/2: RUN semodule -B
>     libsemanage.semanage_commit_sandbox: Error while renaming /var/lib/selinux/targeted/active to /var/lib/selinux/targeted/previous. (Invalid cross-device link).
>     semodule:  Failed!
>     Error: error building at STEP "RUN semodule -B": error while running runtime: exit status 1
>
> With the fix:
>
>     $ podman build -t localhost/selinux2 . --no-cache
>     STEP 2/2: RUN semodule -B
>     libsemanage.semanage_rename: Warning: rename(/var/lib/selinux/targeted/active, /var/lib/selinux/targeted/previous) failed: Invalid cross-device link, fall back to non-atomic semanage_copy_dir_flags()
>
>     COMMIT localhost/selinux2
>     --> d2cfcebc1a1
>     Successfully tagged localhost/selinux2:latest
>     d2cfcebc1a1b34f1c2cd661ac18292b0612c3e5fa71d6fa1441be244da91b1af
>
> Reported-by: Joseph Marrero Corchado <jmarrero@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> v2
> - improve the commit message
> - use WARN() instead of fprintf(stderr,
>
> v3
> - WARN without \n at the end
> - split long line

Acked-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@xxxxxxxxxx>

Note that I didn't give the logic a thorough review, so I'd prefer
someone else to give it a final look and merge it.

-- 
Ondrej Mosnacek
Software Engineer, Linux Security - SELinux kernel
Red Hat, Inc.




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