[PATCH] apparmor: allow getattr on usb devices

christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com
Thu Nov 17 08:42:06 UTC 2022


From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>

For the handling of usb we already allow plenty of read access,
but so far /sys/bus/usb/devices only needed read access to the directory
to enumerate the symlinks in there that point to the actual entries via
relative links to ../../../devices/.

But in more recent systemd with updated libraries a program might do
getattr calls on those symlinks. And while symlinks in apparmor usually
do not matter, as it is the effective target of an access that has to be
allowed, here the getattr calls are on the links themselves.

On USB hostdev usage that causes a set of denials like:
 apparmor="DENIED" operation="getattr" class="file"
 name="/sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1" comm="qemu-system-x86"
 requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" ...

It is safe to read the links, therefore add a rule to allow it to
the block of rules that covers the usb related access.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
---
 src/security/apparmor/libvirt-qemu | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/security/apparmor/libvirt-qemu b/src/security/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
index 02ee273e7e..d0289b8943 100644
--- a/src/security/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
+++ b/src/security/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 
   # For hostdev access. The actual devices will be added dynamically
   /sys/bus/usb/devices/ r,
+  /sys/bus/usb/devices/* r,
   /sys/devices/**/usb[0-9]*/** r,
   # libusb needs udev data about usb devices (~equal to content of lsusb -v)
   /run/udev/data/+usb* r,
-- 
2.38.1



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