On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 06:57:27PM +0200, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Kernel 5.12 added support to SELinux for controlling access to the
> userfaultfd interface [1][2] and we'd like to implement this in
> Fedora's selinux-policy. However, once we add the corresponding class
> to the policy, all SELinux domains for which we don't add the
> appropriate rules will have any usage of userfaultfd(2) denied.
> 
> Therefore, we would like to identify as many users of this syscall as
> possible before we make that change, so that we can add and test all
> the needed rules in one go, minimizing the amount of denials found
> after the fact. My understanding is that userfaultfd(2) doesn't have
> many users among system services, so it should be possible to catch
> most/all of them in advance.
> 
> So if you know that your (or any other) Fedora component uses
> userfaultfd(2), please let us know. AFAIK, at least QEMU most likely
> uses it, so we'll have that one on our radar, but we'd like to know if
> there are any other programs/services we need to cover.

Yes, QEMU, uses  userfaultfd(2) for its post-copy live migration
feature, so we'll need that allowed in the svirt_t / svirt_tcg_t
types.

Regards,
Daniel
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