[PATCH] apparmor: Add denied capabilities

Michal Prívozník mprivozn at redhat.com
Tue Jun 8 09:05:07 UTC 2021


On 6/8/21 12:34 AM, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> The audit log contains the following denials from libvirtd
> 
> apparmor="DENIED" operation="capable" profile="libvirtd" pid=6012 comm="daemon-init" capability=17  capname="sys_rawio"
> apparmor="DENIED" operation="capable" profile="libvirtd" pid=6012 comm="rpc-worker" capability=39  capname="bpf"
> apparmor="DENIED" operation="capable" profile="libvirtd" pid=6012 comm="rpc-worker" capability=38  capname="perfmon"
> 
> Squelch the denials and allow the capabilities in the libvirtd
> apparmor profile.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig at suse.com>
> ---
> 
> I'm not really sure when these denials first started appearing, nor
> have I noticed any problems they are causing. Likely I have not exercised
> the affected functionality.
> 
>  src/security/apparmor/usr.sbin.libvirtd.in | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/security/apparmor/usr.sbin.libvirtd.in b/src/security/apparmor/usr.sbin.libvirtd.in
> index bf4563e1e8..928782b709 100644
> --- a/src/security/apparmor/usr.sbin.libvirtd.in
> +++ b/src/security/apparmor/usr.sbin.libvirtd.in
> @@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ profile libvirtd @sbindir@/libvirtd flags=(attach_disconnected) {
>    capability fsetid,
>    capability audit_write,
>    capability ipc_lock,
> +  capability sys_rawio,
> +  capability bpf,
> +  capability perfmon,
>  
>    # Needed for vfio
>    capability sys_resource,
> 

I remember somebody contacting me on IRC privately asking about
sys_rawio. IIRC I was told that 7.3.0 was okay and 7.4.0 started
requiring sys_rawio. But in my limited testing I don't see any failure
when I drop these caps. Anyway, the patch looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>

Michal




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