[libvirt] [PATCH 5/8] Honour current user and role in SELinux label generation

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Aug 14 14:22:21 UTC 2012


On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 02:55:24PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/10/2012 07:48 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> > 
> > When generating an SELinux context for a VM from the template
> > "system_u:system_r:svirt_t:s0", copy the role + user from the
> > current process instead of the template context. So if the
> > current process is
> > 
> >    unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
> > 
> > then the VM context ends up as
> > 
> >   unconfined_u:unconfined_r:svirt_t:s0:c386,c703
> > 
> > instead of
> > 
> >    system_u:system_r:svirt_t:s0:c177,c424
> > 
> 
> >  virSecuritySELinuxGenNewContext(const char *basecontext, const char *mcs)
> >  {
> > -    context_t context;
> > +    context_t context = NULL;
> >      char *ret = NULL;
> >      char *str;
> > +    security_context_t curseccontext = NULL;
> 
> When I first read this, I wondered why you felt the context of the C
> language was worth cursing - is it really hard to manage security labels
> in the C language?  Adding some underscores would not hurt, since you
> meant cur_sec_context and not curse_c_context :)

Changed it to  ourSecContext :-)

Daniel
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