Re: [PATCH 1/1] selinux: add support for installing a dummy policy

From: Stephen Smalley
Date: Mon Aug 25 2008 - 08:11:15 EST



On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 21:38 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/scripts/selinux/install_policy.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +if [ `id -u` -ne 0 ]; then
> + echo "$0: must be root to install the selinux policy"
> + exit 1
> +fi
> +SF=`which setfiles`
> +if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
> + if [ -f /usr/sbin/setfiles ]; then
> + SF="/usr/sbin/setfiles"

/sbin/setfiles on modern Fedora releases.

> + else
> + echo "no selinux tools installed: setfiles"
> + exit 1
> + fi
> +fi
> +
> +cd mdp
> +
> +CP=`which checkpolicy`
> +./mdp policy.conf file_contexts
> +$CP -o policy.`checkpolicy -V | awk '{print $1}'` policy.conf

Save version to a variable and reuse below.

> +
> +mkdir -p /etc/selinux/dummy/policy
> +mkdir -p /etc/selinux/dummy/contexts/files
> +
> +cp file_contexts /etc/selinux/dummy/contexts/files
> +cp dbus_contexts /etc/selinux/dummy/contexts
> +cp policy.`checkpolicy -V | awk '{print $1}'` /etc/selinux/dummy/policy
> +FC_FILE=/etc/selinux/dummy/contexts/files/file_contexts
> +
> +cd /etc/selinux/dummy/contexts/files
> +$SF file_contexts /
> +
> +mounts=`cat /proc/$$/mounts | egrep "ext2|ext3|xfs|jfs" | awk '{ print $2 '}`

ext4, ext4dev, gfs2 too.
See /sbin/fixfiles for an example. Or run it.

> +for line in $mounts; do
> + $SF file_contexts $line
> +done

You can pass them all to setfiles at once; it takes a list of mount
points after the file_contexts file. Or run fixfiles instead as it does
much the same.

However, I don't believe this step will work if you are doing this on an
existing SELinux-enabled system - the kernel will check the contexts
upon setxattr against the active policy and reject them, and you haven't
loaded the new policy yet. Also, this is a "destructive" operation,
i.e. if they were running SELinux before, they are hereby clobbering all
their file labels. Possibly you should bail out if selinuxenabled
(utility that can be used as a boolean in shell conditionals).
if /usr/sbin/selinuxenabled; then
echo"SELinux already enabled with a policy loaded; exiting."
exit 1
fi

> +
> +dodev=`cat /proc/$$/mounts | grep "/dev "`
> +if [ "eq$dodev" != "eq" ]; then
> + mount --move /dev /mnt
> + $SF file_contexts /dev
> + mount --move /mnt /dev
> +fi

Not sure what you are doing here. If /dev is udev-managed, then it will
handle labeling at boot. But it still shows up as a tmpfs mount
in /proc/self/mounts.

Where do you set up /etc/selinux/config to refer to this dummy policy so
it will get loaded at boot?

--
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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