[PATCH v12 3/4] selinux: teach SELinux about anonymous inodes

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Mon Nov 23 22:42:53 UTC 2020


On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 2:21 PM Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra at google.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 3:14 PM Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 5:39 PM Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra at google.com> wrote:
> > > I have created a cuttlefish build and have tested with the attached
> > > userfaultfd program:
> >
> > Thanks, that's a good place to start, a few comments:
> >
> > - While we support Android as a distribution, it isn't a platform that
> > we common use for development and testing.  At the moment, Fedora is
> > probably your best choice for that.
> >
> I tried setting up a debian/ubuntu system for testing using the
> instructions on the selinux-testsuite page, but the system kept
> freezing after 'setenforce 1'. I'll try with fedora now.

I would expect you to have much better luck with Fedora.

> > - Your test program should be written in vanilla C for the
> > selinux-testsuite.  Looking at the userfaultfdSimple.cc code that
> > should be a trivial conversion.
> >
> > - I think you have a good start on a test for the selinux-testsuite,
> > please take a look at the test suite and submit a patch against that
> > repo.  Ondrej (CC'd) currently maintains the test suite and he may
> > have some additional thoughts.
> >
> > * https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux-testsuite
>
> Thanks a lot for the inputs. I'll start working on this.

Great, let us know if you hit any problems.  I think we would all like
to see this upstream :)

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