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PostPosted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:33 am    Post subject: merge-usr breaking selinux labeling Reply with quote

I relabled one of my selinux systems according to https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SELinux/Labels#Relabeling_files.
This broke the system. After booting up no login possible and on the console even the hostname is unset.

The issue seems to be a time bomb: After merge-usr everything is ok. TILL you relabel the files....

Booting with "enforcing=0" and examining the systems shows, that multiple file labes are now wrong.
One of the more critical one is e.g. shown here:
Code:
# ls -Z /usr/sbin/openrc
system_u:object_r:bin_t /usr/sbin/openrc
Trying to restore only that file is not working:
Code:
# restorecon /usr/sbin/openrc
# ls -Z /usr/sbin/openrc
system_u:object_r:bin_t /usr/sbin/openrc
# ls -Z /usr/bin/openrc
system_u:object_r:bin_t /usr/bin/openrc
# ls -Z /usr/sbin/openrc
system_u:object_r:bin_t /usr/sbin/openrc
Setfiles woks better and shows what's probably going on here:
Code:
# setfiles /etc/selinux/strict/contexts/files/file_contexts -dn /usr/sbin/openrc
/usr/sbin/openrc matched by system_u:object_r:rc_exec_t
# setfiles /etc/selinux/strict/contexts/files/file_contexts -dn /usr/bin/openrc
/usr/bin/openrc matched by system_u:object_r:bin_t
# setfiles /etc/selinux/strict/contexts/files/file_contexts  /usr/sbin/openrc
# ls -Z /usr/sbin/openrc
system_u:object_r:rc_exec_t /usr/sbin/openrc
# setfiles /etc/selinux/strict/contexts/files/file_contexts  /usr/bin/openrc
# ls -Z /usr/sbin/openrc
system_u:object_r:bin_t /usr/sbin/openrc

--> Looks like the selinux file contexts are not written with the merged-usr and as a result we have now conflicting rules.
Restoring the /usr/sbin labels with setfiles fixes most issues. System boots up again and console login is possible. But ssh login was then failing. So for sure there are more label which must be merged.

Anyone aware of that and how to fix that?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Openrc don't use "split-usr" and label for it has not changed recently in policies.

Why relabel after merge-usr ? Procedure is
Code:
merge-usr
AND
Code:
emerge -uDN @world

Portage sets labels with that last emerge.

Try the following procedure to relabel :
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SELinux/Installation#Relabel
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

nicop wrote:
Openrc don't use "split-usr" and label for it has not changed recently in policies.
Openrc supports split-usr and merge-usr. And at least with the new 23.0 profiles merge-usr seems to be the new default. And thus I decided to also use merge-usr for my Openrc selinux systems.
nicop wrote:

Why relabel after merge-usr ? Procedure is
Code:
merge-usr
AND
Code:
emerge -uDN @world

Portage sets labels with that last emerge.
I agree. There is no need to relabel after merge-usr. The point is, it's no longer possible to do that after the mere-usr. Since this then causes severe labeling issues!

nicop wrote:
Try the following procedure to relabel :
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SELinux/Installation#Relabel
I did excatly that. And instead of fixing a minor labeling issue it broke the system!
So the next time you try to relablel - immediately after the merge-usr or years after - selinux will break. System won't even be able to boot up.

Or in other words: Anyone using selinux and has done the merge-usr is sitting on a time-bomb: The next (manual) relabeling will break the system. Also restorecon will set incorrect types for many files...
This seems to be caused by the fact, that the selinux policies don't differentiate between spit-usr and merge-usr.

Thus /usr/sbin/openrc gets the correct label. Unfortunately /usr/bin/openrc is the
*same* file after merge-usr and has no dedicated label. Thus the wildcard label sets it to bin_t.

restorecon and rlpk will set /usr/sbin/openrc to the incorrect type bin_t. Next to be sure these detect the symlink and thus follow the labeling instructions for /usr/bin...

A potential fix would be to update all selinux filecontext rules, making sure all directories put together with the symlinks are triggering the same rules.

But prior to going that way I would like to know if I missed something or if this is a known issue. Since for it it looks like there is no way to use selinux on gentoo with merge-usr at this time. (Short of rewriting many file rules yourself...)
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

deagol wrote:
Openrc supports split-usr and merge-usr. And at least with the new 23.0 profiles merge-usr seems to be the new default. And thus I decided to also use merge-usr for my Openrc selinux systems.


Well, there's a bug :
https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/commit/12e1e884750cc6cf592bbbdaef6f40ceee304b25

I have the same mess with selinux labels. I really don't know why /usr/bin/openrc exists. qfile /usr/bin/openrc returns nothing.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sys-apps/openrc installs /sbin/openrc. Under a merged-usr profile, everything that is installed in /sbin gets relocated to /usr/bin, hence you have /usr/bin/openrc.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, I missed that point :
Quote:
In addition, the script applies the "sbin merge" at the same time where /sbin and /usr/sbin are both actually merged to /usr/bin.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Merge-usr

Some of essential programs that I have installed are without right policies (2.20240226-r1) :
Quote:
/bin/halt
/bin/shutdown
/usr/bin/blkmapd
/usr/bin/dmeventd
/usr/bin/halt
/usr/bin/iftop
/usr/bin/kresd
/usr/bin/mkfs\.f2fs
/usr/bin/multipath
/usr/bin/nginx
/usr/bin/openrc
/usr/bin/openrc-init
/usr/bin/openrc-shutdown
/usr/bin/php-fpm[^/]+
/usr/bin/php.*-fpm
/usr/bin/pwhistory_helper
/usr/bin/rc
/usr/bin/semanage-python.*
/usr/bin/shutdown
/usr/bin/ss
/usr/bin/update-smart-drivedb


This list is the result of that ugly diff :
Code:
sudo semanage fcontext -l | grep -e "^/bin" -e "^/usr/bin" | awk -F " " '{print $1}' > bin
sudo semanage fcontext -l | grep -e "^/sbin" -e "^/usr/sbin" | awk -F " " '{print $1}' | sed 's/sbin/bin/g' > sbin
diff -uNr bin sbin  | grep "^+" | cut -c2-
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 10, 2024 9:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

There's a PR to fix this : https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/pull/768

It might be interesting for each to complete the list via this PR, in order to avoid working in step by step for 5 years.

It's quite easy to find files concerned :
Code:
sudo semanage fcontext -l | grep -e "^/bin" -e "^/usr/bin" | awk -F " " '{print $1}' > bin
sudo semanage fcontext -l | grep -e "^/sbin" -e "^/usr/sbin" | awk -F " " '{print $1}' | sed 's/sbin/bin/g' > sbin
diff -uNr bin sbin  | grep "^+" | cut -c2-
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The whole policy needs to be patched.
Code:
selinux-base-2.20240226-r1/work # for i in `find . -name \*.fc`; do if grep -q -m 1 '^/usr/sbin' $i; then echo $i; fi; done | wc -l
252


But either /usr/sbin is replaced with /usr/bin in every fcontext - this will break the old layout, or added to it - this will make a lot of messy duplicates

I'd go with replacing and setting /usr/sbin to be equal to /usr/bin. In current policy, /bin is already set so, so only /sbin needs to be modified and /usr/sbin created
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

With a diff, the result is only 40 :

Quote:
/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
/usr/bin/update-apt-xapian-index
/usr/bin/fapolicyd
/usr/bin/fapolicyd-cli
/usr/bin/fagenrules
/usr/bin/iftop
/usr/bin/ss
/usr/bin/cpio
/bin/halt
/bin/shutdown
/usr/bin/halt
/usr/bin/shutdown
/usr/bin/ns-slapd
/usr/bin/ldap-agent-bin
/usr/bin/nginx
/usr/bin/resolvconf
/usr/bin/vde_tunctl
/usr/bin/php.*-fpm
/usr/bin/php-fpm[^/]+
/usr/bin/nginx
/usr/bin/apt-cacher.*
/usr/bin/jitterentropy-rngd
/usr/bin/pure-ftpd
/usr/bin/hypervkvpd
/usr/bin/hypervvssd
/usr/bin/memlockd
/usr/bin/postfwd.*
/usr/bin/mariadbd
/usr/bin/ntpctl
/usr/bin/rasdaemon
/usr/bin/smartd
/usr/bin/update-smart-drivedb
/usr/bin/pwhistory_helper
/usr/bin/rc
/usr/bin/openrc
/usr/bin/openrc-init
/usr/bin/openrc-shutdown
/usr/bin/charon-systemd
/usr/bin/dmeventd
/usr/bin/semanage-python.*


EDIT : manual cutoff files with distro condition other than gentoo
https://bpa.st/DJOQ
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