Bug 710273

Summary: Contribute SELinux policy files for Google Chrome / Chromium upstream
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Evan Martin (Chromium) <evan>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: adam, dominick.grift, dwalsh, mgrepl, Per.t.Sjoholm, rgs
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Description Evan Martin (Chromium) 2011-06-02 21:21:06 UTC
In selinux-policy-*.rpm I see that the SELinux policy files have special rules for /opt/google/chrome.

This means when Google releases new versions of Chrome, the policy files may be out of sync with Chromium's behavior.

It would be better if the policy files were kept upstream so that they could be released in parallel with Chrome releases.

These policy files could also be maintained for Chromium at the same time.

Upstream is receptive to patches and would be happy to either just rubber-stamp all changes you'd like to make to policy files or collaborate with you on making sure they are correct.

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2011-06-06 17:56:54 UTC
We are trying to control what the chrome-sandbox is allowed to do, since it is setuid.  The bug that you are seeing is caused by a file/directory being created in the homedir with the wrong label on it.  In F15 we did not have policycoreutils-restorecond installed by default, which would have fixed the mislabeled directory.  We can add this to a comps file to make sure it gets installed in the future.  In F16 we have the ability to label these files/directories correctly on creation.   I have also disabled the transition from unconfined_t to chrome_sandbox_t by default.  So chrome_sandbox will continue to run as unconfined_t to block this.

Confined user will still have this problem, but the fixes in F16 should mitigate it.

One thing I would like to see fixed in chrome-sandbox would be to break the executable in two.  One exec to setup the sandbox environment that would require all of the capabilities, and then a second exe that would actually process the content.  Then we could really lock down the chrome-sandbox process.

Comment 2 Adam Goode 2011-06-07 12:24:23 UTC
Where are you upstreaming the patches currently in http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=selinux-policy.git ?

Does it go to the reference policy or individual upstreams?


Chromium definitely wants to host this policy.

We shouldn't have such large changes without upstream motion.

Comment 3 Adam Goode 2011-06-14 12:43:00 UTC
Ping?

Comment 4 Daniel Walsh 2011-06-14 15:30:04 UTC
chrome policy is stored in reference policy upstream.

If you want to modify it, I would suggest you send patches there.

Comment 5 Daniel Walsh 2011-06-14 15:31:11 UTC
http://oss.tresys.com/git/refpolicy.git

The problems we have seen with the chrome_sandbox policy have been related to labeling not so much the actual rules.

Comment 6 Adam Goode 2011-06-15 02:12:14 UTC
Do you want me to start extracting the Chrome-specific policy from http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=selinux-policy.git and send patches to refpolicy?

Comment 7 Daniel Walsh 2011-06-15 12:24:42 UTC
No sorry, I thought the policy had been upstreamed.  I guess you should report any problems with chrome policy to us.

Miroslav can you work to get chrome policy upstreamed.

Comment 8 Miroslav Grepl 2011-06-15 12:47:06 UTC
Ok, I will send a patch to upstream. 

Adam, I will add you to CC.

Comment 9 Daniel Walsh 2011-11-21 17:05:14 UTC
Ping...

Comment 10 Evan Martin (Chromium) 2012-01-03 19:50:25 UTC
Since everyone else is doing it, I'll ping too.  Happy new year!  :)

Comment 11 Daniel Walsh 2012-01-11 22:01:49 UTC
I submitted the current Fedora policy for upstream acceptance.

Comment 12 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 19:33:12 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
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