[PATCH] apparmor: Add denied capabilities

Jim Fehlig jfehlig at suse.com
Tue Jun 8 17:35:40 UTC 2021


On 6/7/21 5:43 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 6:34 PM Jim Fehlig <jfehlig at suse.com> 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,
>> --
>> 2.31.1
>>
>>
> 
> The patch LGTM, but the title is confusing. Maybe the following?
> 
> "apparmor: Permit new capabilities required by libvirt"

Reading again, I agree it is poorly worded. I used your suggestion, but 
s/libvirt/libvirtd/.

Regards,
Jim




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