libselinux: do not use status page fallback mode internally

Currently `avc_init_internal()`, called by `avc_open(3)` and
`avc_init(3)`, does open the SELinux status page with fallback mode
enabled.

Quote from man:selinux_status_open(3):
    In this case, this function tries to open a netlink socket using
    .BR avc_netlink_open (3) and overwrite corresponding callbacks
    (setenforce and policyload).  Thus, we need to pay attention to the
    interaction with these interfaces, when fallback mode is enabled.

Calling `selinux_status_open` internally in fallback mode is bad, cause
it overrides callbacks from client applications or the internal
fallback-callbacks get overridden by client applications.
Note that `avc_open(3)` gets called under the hood by
`selinux_check_access(3)` without checking for failure.
Also the status page is available since Linux 2.6.37, so failures of
`selinux_status_open(3)` in non-fallback mode should only be caused by
policies not allowing the client process to open/read/map
the /sys/fs/selinux/status file.

Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
This commit is contained in:
Christian Göttsche 2021-05-10 12:56:48 +02:00 committed by Petr Lautrbach
parent c5a699046f
commit 3cef4110be

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@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static int avc_init_internal(const char *prefix,
avc_enforcing = rc;
}
rc = selinux_status_open(1);
rc = selinux_status_open(0);
if (rc < 0) {
avc_log(SELINUX_ERROR,
"%s: could not open selinux status page: %d (%s)\n",