Re: Updating security classes and access vectors in Fedora policy?

[Zdenek Pytela]

Stephen,

Thank you for bringing this topic and to everybody else for their
contribution. I am sorry for the delay. I will respond inline and to
subsequent e-mails.


On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 4:09 PM Stephen Smalley <sds(a)tycho.nsa.gov&gt; wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>  Fedora policy has a number of differences in its security_classes and
>  access_vectors from current refpolicy, and neither are fully up to date
>  with the kernel (but refpolicy is closer).  One consequence of this is
>  that parts of the selinux-testsuite do not run by default on Fedora
>  (including rawhide) at present and still require manual patching by
>  testers if they want to exercise all the tests.
>
>  Differences that I see include:
>
>  - refpolicy has added the watch* permissions exercised by the
>  selinux-testsuite/tests/{notify,filesystem,fs_filesystem} tests.  These
>  were first defined in refpolicy by
>
>
> https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/commit/c656b97a289ce6c2da2871...
>  but there have been a series of subsequent commits (one to fix an
>  ordering problem to better align with the kernel) and then allowing
>  these new watch permissions as needed.
>
>  - refpolicy has added the perf_event class exercised by the
>  selinux-testsuite/tests/perf_event tests.  These were first defined in
>  refpolicy by
>
>
> https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/commit/624a63704c19a653486f37...
>  .
>
>  - Neither refpolicy nor fedora have yet added the lockdown class
>  exercised by selinux-testsuite/tests/lockdown.  The kernel commit
>  introducing this class is
>
>
> https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux-kernel/commit/59438b46471ae6cdf...
>  .
>
>  
I generally agree we need the changes to have the features in Fedora and
support the testsuite.

Supposedly all new features will go to rawhide first and after some time to
F32, too. I can also prepare testbuilds for anyone who wants to test
various scenarios.


>  Other differences that don't directly affect the testsuite
> execution:
>
>  - Drop unused socket security classes,
>
>
> https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/commit/4637cd6f898e95ffa95b2d...
>
>  - Remove unused permissions,
>
>
> https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/commit/161bda392e61056ea22fe9...
>
>  - Remove entrypoint and execute_no_trans from chr_file,
>
>
> https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/commit/8486b8aa83afa7abd94c93...
>
>  - remove flow_in and flow_out permissions from packet class,
>
>
> https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/commit/f4459adf3242ed2dbc35e2...
>
>  -  Rename obsolete netlink_firewall_socket and netlink_ip6fw_socket
>  classes,
>
>
> https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/commit/5fd175fa453e995d8b7357...
>
>  - Remove unused translate permission in context userspace class,
>
>
> https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/commit/65da822c1b5c70bd1ff7ec...
>
>  - Fedora policy has an "undefined" permission in its class system access
>  vector, not present in refpolicy (some kind of compatibility hack?).
>  
I don't know much from the policy ancient history - Lukas, does a bell
ring?


>  - Fedora policy has an "epolwakeup" permission in its class
> capability2
>  access vector, not present in refpolicy (old name for block_suspend,
>  never included in an official kernel release, also not even correct
>  originally - should have been epollwakeup).
>  
Ondrej, can you respond?


>  - Fedora policy has "getnetgrp" and "shmemnetgrp"
> permissions in its
>  class nscd access vector, not sure if those are used by glibc/ncsd code
>  but if so should get added to refpolicy too.
>
>  - Fedora policy has a "proxy" class and access vector for "gssd",
> not
>  present in refpolicy.  If that's something that isn't Fedora-specific,
>  it should probably get upstreamed to refpolicy although the class name
>  isn't very descriptive.
>  
I will investigate on these two.


>  - refpolicy has "db_exception" and "db_datatype"
> classes and access
>  vectors for "Interbase/Firebird/Red Database", not present in Fedora.
>  Don't know if that matters to Fedora.
>  
I've never seen these classes mentioned anywhere.


>  - Various whitespace/comment cleanups in refpolicy not in Fedora.
>  
There are many whitespace/comments/typos etc. issues which are annoying,
however correcting them spoils git history and makes git blame less useful,
so I am not for every single change like this.


>  - process2 is declared at a different place in security_classes in
>  refpolicy versus Fedora.  Doesn't really matter since kernel uses
>  dynamic class/perm support and no fixed definition ever defined in
>  libselinux/libsepol headers but might be good to align them for
>  consistency.
>  
Similar case; maybe this time keeping the file history is not that
important though.


>  NB The removals and renames may have some compatibility
> implications,
>  e.g. a local or third party policy module built against the existing
>  Fedora policy headers may have picked up dependencies on these
>  classes/permissions and therefore may need to be rebuilt against the
>  updated headers in order to still link successfully.  This could break
>  upon an update if those local or third party modules were installed at
>  the time of the update since we'd fail on the semodule -B during %post,
>  leaving the system with the old policy.  rpm selinux support was
>  supposed to fix that kind of thing by handling it via plugin and not
>  from %post and rolling the package update back but never got adopted/used
>  ;(
>  
Removing/renaming I expect go to rawhide only.


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Zdenek Pytela
Security controls team, sst_platform_security