[libvirt] [PATCH 2/4] apparmor: Allow libvirt to spawn virt-aa-helper and libvirt_lxc

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Tue Jan 22 16:47:13 UTC 2019


On 1/22/19 3:14 PM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 2:40 PM Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Both of these binaries are spawn by libvirt. Add a rule to the
>> default profile to allow that.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  src/security/apparmor/usr.sbin.libvirtd | 2 ++
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/security/apparmor/usr.sbin.libvirtd b/src/security/apparmor/usr.sbin.libvirtd
>> index 660d72abc1..8a402bd6ec 100644
>> --- a/src/security/apparmor/usr.sbin.libvirtd
>> +++ b/src/security/apparmor/usr.sbin.libvirtd
>> @@ -98,6 +98,8 @@
>>    audit deny /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/.* rwxl,
>>    /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/profiles r,
> 
> 
>>    /usr/{lib,lib64}/libvirt/* PUxr,
>> +  /usr/libexec/virt-aa-helper PUxr,
>> +  /usr/libexec/libvirt_lxc PUxr,
>>    /usr/libexec/libvirt_parthelper ix,
>>    /usr/libexec/libvirt_iohelper ix,
> 
> In this case this would not have been that bad, as the rule above
> would have covered the Debian/Ubuntu case.
> But as in my former reply, now that you have made me thinking about it
> I'd think we'd actually want
>   $(get --libexecdir  )/* PUxr,
> instead of all 5 lines above
> 

This will work if all the binaries are placed in a separate folder.
However, if they are not and live right under libexec/ dir I don't think
it would be safe to allow just any binary from the dir.

Michal




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