Ah - I never thought that ps command uses privilege that normal users do
not have.

Tai

On 5/20/14, 4:56 PM, "Stephen Smalley" <[email protected]> wrote:

>In user/userdebug builds, the ADB shell runs in the shell UID and thus
>any capability checks will be denied by DAC even before you reach the
>SELinux check.  In the eng build, the ADB shell runs as root (as if
>you had run an adb root command on the userdebug build or were on the
>emulator), and thus you will pass the DAC check and reach the SELinux
>check.
>
>On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Tai Nguyen (tainguye)
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> On my user/user debug loads, adb shell user can run ps command without
>>any
>> audit message.
>>
>> shell@android:/ $ id
>>
>> uid=2000(shell) gid=2000(shell)
>> 
>>groups=1003(graphics),1004(input),1007(log),1009(mount),1011(adb),1015(sd
>>card_rw),1028(sdcard_r),2001(cache),3001(net_bt_admin),3002(net_bt),3003(
>>inet),3006(net_bw_stats)
>> context=u:r:shell:s0
>>
>>
>> However, on my eng loads, a ps command generate a lot of audit message
>>about
>> sys_ptrace
>>
>> audit(1400521005.486:189): avc:  denied  { sys_ptrace } for  pid=3624
>> comm="ps" capability=19  scontext=u:r:shell:s0 tcontext=u:r:shell:s0
>> tclass=capability
>>
>> audit(1400521005.486:190): avc:  denied  { sys_ptrace } for  pid=3624
>> comm="ps" capability=19  scontext=u:r:shell:s0 tcontext=u:r:shell:s0
>> tclass=capability
>>
>> root@android:/ # id
>>
>> uid=0(root) gid=0(root) context=u:r:shell:s0
>>
>>
>> We don¹t have boolean and I grep for sys_ptrace and don¹t see any rule,
>> including dontaudit, for shell domain.
>>
>> So, what can cause different result between eng build and user/user
>>debug
>> build?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tai
>>
>>
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