selinux/libsemanage
Stephen Smalley c3c7ef9c65 libsemanage issue with bzip-blocksize=0 and compressed modules in store
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 10:57 -0400, Chris PeBenito wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 10:04 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 09:54 -0400, Chris PeBenito wrote:
> > > I took the current release of libsemanage and added the patch to add a
> > > bzip blocksize option[1].  The modules in my store were already
> > > compressed with the stock release.  I put bzip-blocksize=0 in my
> > > semanage.conf and I do semodule -B and get:
> > >
> > > libsepol.module_package_read_offsets: wrong magic number for module
> > > package:  expected 0xf97cff8f, got 0x39685a42 (No such file or
> > > directory).
> > > libsemanage.semanage_load_module: Error while reading from module
> > > file /etc/selinux/strict/modules/tmp/modules/apm.pp. (No such file or
> > > directory).
> > > semodule:  Failed!
> > >
> > > If I do semodule -l, it will also get the magic number error.  If I
> > > remove the blocksize option, it works again.  I was able to reinsert all
> > > of the modules to get it working again with the blocksize 0 option.
> > >
> > > [1] http://userspace.selinuxproject.org/trac/changeset/ee9827000137fed2d3300124115fc1572acafe2f
> >
> > Yes, that's what I would expect.  The expectation is that either one
> > would set that option before installing the policy for the first time,
> > or that one completely re-installs the policy after setting that option.
>
> Can we have a little better handling of this case?  I don't mind
> reinstalling the policy, but the error messages aren't helpful.  In
> addition, with semodule -l being broken, I have to look into the module
> store to see what modules are installed or guess.

Seems like it is just as easy to just support pre-existing compressed
modules, see below.

Explicitly probe for the bzip2 magic string prefix and fall through to
BZ2_bzReadOpen() if the module is bzipped even if bzip-blocksize=0.
Thus bzip-blocksize=0 will prevent any further compression of
subsequently installed/updated modules, but will continue to function
with existing compressed modules.

Signed-off-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
2009-08-24 15:26:48 -04:00
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example Author: Daniel J Walsh 2008-09-15 09:25:33 -04:00
include libsemanage: maintain disable dontaudit state between handle commits 2009-07-07 14:21:17 -04:00
man initial import from svn trunk revision 2950 2008-08-19 15:30:36 -04:00
src libsemanage issue with bzip-blocksize=0 and compressed modules in store 2009-08-24 15:26:48 -04:00
tests regenerate swig bindings for compression support from commit 142bafa24900b5d9480818c9e81670bbeba2b44d 2009-01-12 10:19:58 -05:00
ChangeLog libsemanage 2.0.35 2009-08-05 14:13:27 -04:00
COPYING initial import from svn trunk revision 2950 2008-08-19 15:30:36 -04:00
Makefile initial import from svn trunk revision 2950 2008-08-19 15:30:36 -04:00
VERSION libsemanage 2.0.35 2009-08-05 14:13:27 -04:00