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Bug 1122850

Summary:	semanage -o doesn't work in combination with -S mls
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Michal Trunecka <mtruneck>
Component:	policycoreutils	Assignee:	Petr Lautrbach <plautrba>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Milos Malik <mmalik>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.6	CC:	dwalsh, mgrepl, mmalik
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	policycoreutils-2.0.83-21.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	The semanage utility previously listed only changes made to the currently used SELinux policy. For example, when the targeted policy was loaded and changes were made to the Multi-Level Security (MLS) policy, the "semanage -S mls -o" command did not list all the changes, even when the changes were applied correctly. This bug has been fixed, and semanage now lists all changes as expected.	Story Points:	---
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Clones:	1208797 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2015-07-22 07:03:55 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Michal Trunecka 2014-07-24 08:30:29 UTC

Description of problem:
semanage -S mls -o -    seems to show always the changes for the currently loaded policy. Changes made to e.g. mls policy seems to be applied correctly, but are not shown in this listing.

For example, when targeted policy is used:

##### Both listings for targeted and mls are empty (showing just fcontext part):
# semanage -o -
....
fcontext -D
# semanage -S mls -o -
....
fcontext -D

##### I add fcontext rule to mls storage
# semanage fcontext -S mls -a -N -t httpd_sys_content_t /test1

##### ..and it is not shown in niether:
# semanage -o -
....
fcontext -D
# semanage -S mls -o -
....
fcontext -D

##### But it is in the correct config file:
# cat /etc/selinux/mls/modules/active/file_contexts.local 
  # This file is auto-generated by libsemanage
  # Do not edit directly.

  /test1    system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0
##### And not in the targeted:
# cat /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/file_contexts.local 

  # This file is auto-generated by libsemanage
  # Do not edit directly.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
policycoreutils-2.0.83-19.45.el6.x86_64

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2014-08-06 22:09:43 UTC

Are you getting AVCs?  Does it work in permissive mode?

Comment 4 Petr Lautrbach 2015-03-09 14:11:45 UTC

I has not been fixed yet.

Comment 5 Miroslav Grepl 2015-03-09 16:28:49 UTC

Should work with

--- /usr/sbin/semanage.old	2015-03-09 14:53:54.707000662 +0100
+++ /usr/sbin/semanage	2015-03-09 16:12:56.290999834 +0100
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@
                              sys.stdout = open(output, 'w')
                       for i in manageditems:
                              print "%s -D" % i
-                             process_args([i, "-E"])
+                             process_args([i, "-E",("-S%s") % store ])
                       sys.exit(0)
 
                if input != None:

Comment 6 Petr Lautrbach 2015-03-10 15:16:36 UTC

The proposed patch wouldn't work when semanage is called without -S. This one should fix it:

--- /usr/sbin/semanage.orig     2015-03-10 14:24:54.577229283 +0100
+++ /usr/sbin/semanage  2015-03-10 16:14:20.247141124 +0100
@@ -560,7 +560,10 @@ Object-specific Options (see above):
                              sys.stdout = open(output, 'w')
                       for i in manageditems:
                              print "%s -D" % i
-                             process_args([i, "-E"])
+                             if store == "":
+                                    process_args([i, "-E"])
+                             else:
+                                    process_args([i, "-E", "-S", store])
                       sys.exit(0)
 
                if input != None:

Comment 7 Miroslav Grepl 2015-03-10 16:25:04 UTC

Yeap, thanks.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-22 07:03:55 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-1360.html