From: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
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To: | Ted Toth <txtoth(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Add <<none>> support to sepgsql_restorecon |
Date: | 2023-01-16 14:58:12 |
Message-ID: | 5b241ca1-89ad-c379-ca59-041413b84b90@joeconway.com |
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On 1/16/23 09:55, Ted Toth wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 1:11 PM Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com
> <mailto:mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> On 11/21/22 17:35, Joe Conway wrote:
> > On 11/21/22 15:57, Ted Toth wrote:
> >> In SELinux file context files you can specify <<none>> for a file
> >> meaning you don't want restorecon to relabel it. <<none>> is
> >> especially useful in an SELinux MLS environment when objects are
> >> created at a specific security level and you don't want
> restorecon to
> >> relabel them to the wrong security level.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Please add to the next commitfest here:
> > https://commitfest.postgresql.org/41/
> <https://commitfest.postgresql.org/41/>
>
>
> Comments:
>
> 1. It seems like the check for a "<<none>>" context should go into
> sepgsql_object_relabel() directly rather than exec_object_restorecon().
> The former gets registered as a hook in _PG_init(), so the with the
> current location we would fail to skip the relabel when that gets
> called.
>
>
> The intent is not to stop all relabeling only to stop sepgsql_restorecon
> from doing a bulk relabel. I believe sepgsql_object_relabel is called by
> the 'SECURITY LABEL' statement which I'm using to set the label of db
> objects to a specific context which I would not want altered later by a
> restorecon.
Ok, sounds reasonable. Maybe just add a comment to that effect.
--
Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
RDS Open Source Databases
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com
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