dontaudit mount writes to newly mounted filesystems

As of util-linux-n 2.18, the mount utility now attempts to write to the root
of newly mounted filesystems.  It does this in an attempt to ensure that the
r/w status of a filesystem as shown in mtab is correct.  To detect whether
a filesystem is r/w, mount calls access() with the W_OK argument.  This
results in an AVC denial with current policy.  As a fallback, mount also
attempts to modify the access time of the directory being mounted on if
the call to access() fails.  As mount already possesses the necessary
privileges, the modification of the access time succeeds (at least on systems
with the futimens() function, which has existed in linux since kernel 2.6.22
and glibc since version 2.6, or about July 2007).

Signed-off-by: Chris Richards <gizmo@giz-works.com>
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Chris Richards 2010-11-08 19:25:31 -06:00 committed by Chris PeBenito
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@ -3702,6 +3702,24 @@ interface(`dev_write_sysfs_dirs',`
allow $1 sysfs_t:dir write;
')
########################################
## <summary>
## Do not audit attempts to write in a sysfs directory.
## </summary>
## <param name="domain">
## <summary>
## Domain to not audit.
## </summary>
## </param>
#
interface(`dev_dontaudit_write_sysfs_dirs',`
gen_require(`
type sysfs_t;
')
dontaudit $1 sysfs_t:dir write;
')
########################################
## <summary>
## Read hardware state information.