[refpolicy] kernel_files.patch

[Daniel J Walsh]

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Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 17:00 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>> http://people.fedoraproject.org/~dwalsh/SELinux/F11/kernel_files.patch
>>
>> Fix label of system_map under /boot/efi
>>
>> Add etc_runtime to hosts.deny
> 
There are some init scripts that modify the hosts.deny file so it ends
up labeled etc_runtime_t.  Forget which one.
> I need justification for this.
> 
>> Allow relabel from and to all blk and chr file context.  This prevents
>> restorecon from breaking if users have blk files in homedir.
> 
> Why would there be device nodes in a user home directory?  We can't
> allow device nodes to be relabeled to something that is not a device
> node type.
> 
Any kernel developer will end up with chr and block devices in their
homedir, if they run a restorecon or setfiles on their home dir they get
avc messages when they relabel their homedir, with "valid" files in the
homedir.  Trying to justify this denial, just ends up with kernel
engineers saying SELinux sucks...

>> Add interfaces to rw_all_files
>>
>> Allow relabel all filesytems to all other files systems (Mount context=)
> 
> When/why did the existing rule for this become insufficient?
> 
If you bind mount files or file systems mount needs to be able to
read/write the source.
>> Add the ability to delete unlabled file (file_t) tmpreaper needs to be
>> able to delete files left on /tmp that never got labeled on initial label.
> 

> I don't have a problem with this, but I think the
> files_delete_isid_type_files() interface needs to be split up.  Or put
> the rules into the purge tmp interface.
> 
Fine.
>> A few other interfaces
> 
> Need explanation for the polyinstantiation change.
> 
> files_delete_usr_files() needs to be broken up.
> 
Fine
>> Additional mount file ssytem.  Any file type can be moved to /tmp.
> 

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