xen, selinux, FC5

Robin Bowes robin-lists at robinbowes.com
Fri Oct 13 16:12:21 UTC 2006


Stephen Smalley wrote:
> 
> The assertion is to prevent accidental granting of read access to a
> raw disk device.  Is that truly required here?

Probably - the root disk of the guest O/S instance is an lvm partition,
e.g. /dev/vg01/lv_guest

> To allow it, you need to use the interface for it, e.g. 
> storage_raw_read_fixed_disk(xm_t) That interface is defined in
> kernel/storage.if. In addition to allowing the permission, it adds a
> type attribute to the type that excludes from the assertion.

So, what would that look like in the policy file?

Thanks,

R.




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