This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: target: Fix SELinux error when systemd-modules loads the target module to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: scsi-target-fix-selinux-error-when-systemd-modules-l.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit c5022ab4a0a704cedc3ba29819312181a49db4b4 Author: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 15 15:39:43 2024 +0100 scsi: target: Fix SELinux error when systemd-modules loads the target module [ Upstream commit 97a54ef596c3fd24ec2b227ba8aaf2cf5415e779 ] If the systemd-modules service loads the target module, the credentials of that userspace process will be used to validate the access to the target db directory. SELinux will prevent it, reporting an error like the following: kernel: audit: type=1400 audit(1676301082.205:4): avc: denied { read } for pid=1020 comm="systemd-modules" name="target" dev="dm-3" ino=4657583 scontext=system_u:system_r:systemd_modules_load_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:targetd_etc_rw_t:s0 tclass=dir permissive=0 Fix the error by using the kernel credentials to access the db directory Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240215143944.847184-2-mlombard@xxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c b/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c index 416514c5c7acd..1a26dd0d56662 100644 --- a/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c @@ -3587,6 +3587,8 @@ static int __init target_core_init_configfs(void) { struct configfs_subsystem *subsys = &target_core_fabrics; struct t10_alua_lu_gp *lu_gp; + struct cred *kern_cred; + const struct cred *old_cred; int ret; pr_debug("TARGET_CORE[0]: Loading Generic Kernel Storage" @@ -3663,11 +3665,21 @@ static int __init target_core_init_configfs(void) if (ret < 0) goto out; + /* We use the kernel credentials to access the target directory */ + kern_cred = prepare_kernel_cred(&init_task); + if (!kern_cred) { + ret = -ENOMEM; + goto out; + } + old_cred = override_creds(kern_cred); target_init_dbroot(); + revert_creds(old_cred); + put_cred(kern_cred); return 0; out: + target_xcopy_release_pt(); configfs_unregister_subsystem(subsys); core_dev_release_virtual_lun0(); rd_module_exit();