Makes libselinux safer and less likely to leak file descriptors when
used as part of a multithreaded program.
Signed-off-by: Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com>
In attempting to enable building various part of Android with -Wall -Werror,
we found that the const security_context_t declarations in libselinux
are incorrect; const char * was intended, but const security_context_t
translates to char * const and triggers warnings on passing
const char * from the caller. Easiest fix is to replace them all with
const char *. And while we are at it, just get rid of all usage of
security_context_t itself as it adds no value - there is no true
encapsulation of the security context strings and callers already
directly use string functions on them. typedef left to permit
building legacy users until such a time as all are updated.
This is a port of Change-Id I2f9df7bb9f575f76024c3e5f5b660345da2931a7
from Android, augmented to deal with all of the other code in upstream
libselinux and updating the man pages too.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
I'd like to use this interface to implement special case handling
for the default labeling behavior on temporary database objects. Allow
userspace to use the filename_trans rules added to policy.
Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <kohei.kaigai@emea.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Email: kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com
Subject: libselinux APIs should take "const" qualifier?
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:56:36 +0900
(2010/03/19 22:32), Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 16:52 +0900, KaiGai Kohei wrote:
>> Right now, security_context_t is an alias of char *, declared in selinux.h.
>>
>> Various kind of libselinux API takes security_context_t arguments,
>> however, it is inconvenience in several situations.
>>
>> For example, the following query is parsed, then delivered to access
>> control subsystem with the security context as "const char *" cstring.
>>
>> ALTER TABLE my_tbl SECURITY LABEL TO 'system_u:object_r:sepgsql_table_t:SystemHigh';
>> const char *<---- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> In this case, we want to call selinux_trans_to_raw_context() to translate
>> the given security context into raw format. But it takes security_context_t
>> argument for the source context, although this pointer is read-only.
>> In the result, compiler raises warnings because we gave "const char *" pointer
>> into functions which take security_context_t (= char *).
>>
>> Any comments?
>>
>> It seems to me the following functions' prototype should be qualified by
>> "const".
>
> That seems reasonable and should have no impact on library ABI.
> On the other hand, others have pointed out that security_context_t is
> not a properly encapsulated data type at all, and perhaps should be
> deprecated and replaced with direct use of char*/const char* throughout.
>
> There are other library API issues as well that have come up in the
> past, such as lack of adequate namespacing (with approaches put forth),
> but we don't ever seem to get a round tuit.
At first, I tried to add const qualifiers read-only security_context_t
pointers, but didn't replace them by char */const char * yet, right now.
BTW, I could find out the following code:
int security_compute_create(security_context_t scon,
security_context_t tcon,
security_class_t tclass,
security_context_t * newcon)
{
int ret;
security_context_t rscon = scon;
security_context_t rtcon = tcon;
security_context_t rnewcon;
if (selinux_trans_to_raw_context(scon, &rscon))
return -1;
if (selinux_trans_to_raw_context(tcon, &rtcon)) {
freecon(rscon);
return -1;
}
:
In this case, scon and tcon can be qualified by const, and the first
argument of selinux_trans_to_raw_context() can take const pointer.
But it tries to initialize rscon and tscon by const pointer, although
these are used to store raw security contexts.
The selinux_trans_to_raw_context() always set dynamically allocated
text string on the second argument, so we don't need to initialize it
anyway. I also removed these initializations in this patch.
Does the older mcstrans code could return without allocation of raw
format when the given scon is already raw format? I don't know why
these are initialized in this manner.
Thanks.
--
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Chad Sellers <csellers@tresys.com>
