On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 09:23:05PM +0800, Yongqin Liu wrote:
> Submitted a temporary workaround on selinux rules here:
> https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/system/sepolicy/+/682121
> 
> in case the re-order of events has any problem.

Thanks for doing this, I added all relevant people there to review.
I still want to understand what changed a little better, so I'll get back
when I go through the changes first.

- ssp


> 
> Thanks,
> Yongqin Liu
> 
> On 8 May 2018 at 14:47, Yongqin Liu <yongqin....@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On 8 May 2018 at 12:15, Sandeep Patil <sspa...@google.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 10:46 AM Stephen Smalley <s...@tycho.nsa.gov>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 05/07/2018 01:17 PM, Yongqin Liu wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > On 8 May 2018 at 00:55, Stephen Smalley <s...@tycho.nsa.gov <mailto:
> >>> s...@tycho.nsa.gov>> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> >     On 05/07/2018 12:51 PM, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> >>> >     > On 05/07/2018 12:30 PM, Yongqin Liu wrote:
> >>> >     >>     I run the commands as root with userdebug build, after run
> >>> su command.
> >>> >     >
> >>> >     > Can you run id -Z before and after running su?  I'm trying to
> >>> understand why the scontext is u:r:kernel:s0 instead of e.g. u:r:shell:s0
> >>> (regular shell) or u:r:su:s0 (su shell).
> >>> >
> >>> > h01:04:28 liuyq: ~$ adb shell
> >>> > hikey:/ $ id
> >>> > uid=2000(shell) gid=2000(shell) groups=2000(shell),1004(input)
> >>> ,1007(log),1011(adb),1015(sdcard_rw),1028(sdcard_r),3001(
> >>> net_bt_admin),3002(net_bt),3003(inet),3006(net_bw_stats),3009(readproc),3011(uhid)
> >>> context=u:r:shell:s0
> >>> > hikey:/ $ su
> >>> > hikey:/ # id
> >>> > uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1004(input),100
> >>> 7(log),1011(adb),1015(sdcard_rw),1028(sdcard_r),3001(net_
> >>> bt_admin),3002(net_bt),3003(inet),3006(net_bw_stats),3009(readproc),3011(uhid)
> >>> context=u:r:su:s0
> >>> > hikey:/ # ^D
> >>> > hikey:/ $ ^D
> >>> > 01:05:52 liuyq: ~$ adb shell
> >>> > hikey:/ $
> >>> > hikey:/ $ id -Z
> >>> > context=u:r:shell:s0
> >>> > hikey:/ $ su
> >>> > hikey:/ # id -Z
> >>> > context=u:r:su:s0
> >>> > hikey:/ #
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >     Is it because it is a console rather than adb and there is no
> >>> domain transition defined for shell execution from the console?  Should
> >>> there be a domain_auto_trans(kernel, shell_exec, shell) rule in policy?
> >>> >
> >>> > Both running it from the serial console after su, or the via vts with
> >>> adb shell(after adb root), will report kernel scontext domain.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >     Actually, we don't allow kernel domain to execute anything other
> >>> than init, so I don't understand how you got a shell running in kernel
> >>> domain (if that is in fact what you did).
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > it's what i want to be clear too.
> >>>
> >>> Ok, the implication is that the actual write request is happening from a
> >>> kernel thread, not in the context of the process that is performing the
> >>> mkfs command, e.g. the write is deferred to a work queue or similar
> >>> mechanism. If so, then there isn't much point in performing the check at
> >>> all, because it will always be from the kernel domain regardless of the
> >>> userspace originator.
> >>>
> >>> I'm not sure that moving the security_file_permission() calls into
> >>> rw_verify_area() was a good idea since a userspace permissions check is
> >>> logically different than the other kinds of validation being performed
> >>> there.  However, I think it
> >>> was motivated by the fact that originally all callers of
> >>> rw_verify_area() were also performing a security_file_permission() call,
> >>> and to help ensure that no future read/write interfaces bypassed the
> >>> security check.
> >>>
> >>> The underlying hook function, selinux_file_permission(), only performs a
> >>> permission check if something has changed since the checks performed at
> >>> open time, e.g. the current process' sid differs from that of the opener,
> >>> the inode SID has changed, or the policy has changed.  In this case, I
> >>> assume it is because the writer is running in the kernel domain whereas 
> >>> the
> >>> opener was in the domain of the process that invoked mkfs, e.g. su.
> >>>
> >>> The near term fix is to simply allow it for the kernel domain under
> >>> userdebug_or_eng().
> >>
> >>
> >> ... or simply re-order the events as ...
> >>
> >> 1. create a file
> >> 2. format it with mkfs.extN
> >> 3. .. then assign a loopback device
> >> 4. mount (this used to only generate read access from kernel domain)
> >>
> >> That is what LTP tests have been doing and seems like this particular
> >> one swaps #2 & #3 which causes the 'write' check. We didn't want the
> >> kernel
> >> domain to have write access anywhere IIRC, so the policy change is
> >> correct.
> >>
> >> Once the filesystem is created and mounted, all reads/writes come
> >> from userspace domain anyway.
> >>
> >> Unless, the problem is with step #4 above and that has now changed with
> >> 4.14. I'll check on my end to see if this is the case ..
> >>
> >> The failed LTP testcases are following:
> >
> > VtsKernelLtp#fs.fs_fill_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.fallocate04_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.fallocate05_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.fchmod06_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.fsync01_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.ftruncate04_64_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.ftruncate04_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.link08_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.linkat02_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.mkdirat02_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.mknod07_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.mknodat02_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.msync04_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.rmdir02_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.setxattr01_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.mount01_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.mount02_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.mount06_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.umount01_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.umount02_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.umount03_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.umount2_01_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.umount2_02_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.umount2_03_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.utime06_64bit
> > VtsKernelLtp#syscalls.utimes01_64bit
> >
> >
> > --
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> > Yongqin Liu
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