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Bug 1269989 - result of how selinux fcontexts with regexps work depends on adding order
Summary: result of how selinux fcontexts with regexps work depends on adding order
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: policycoreutils
Version: 7.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Vit Mojzis
QA Contact: Dalibor Pospíšil
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-10-08 17:40 UTC by Rafał Mielnik
Modified: 2018-02-01 17:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-02-01 17:13:13 UTC
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Github SELinuxProject selinux issues 40 0 None open libsemanage should sort file_contexts.local by precedence too 2021-01-05 09:55:48 UTC

Description Rafał Mielnik 2015-10-08 17:40:08 UTC 
Description of problem:

the order of adding the regexp fcontext rules shouldn't matter but it looks like it actually does matter

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

selinux-policy-3.13.1-23.el7_1.18.noarch

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:

1. semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_log_t '/tmp/selinux/log(/.*)?'
semanage fcontext -a -t var_log_t '/tmp/selinux(/.*)?'

2. mkdir /tmp/selinux/log -p
touch /tmp/selinux/log/file
restorecon -Rv /tmp/selinux/

3. semanage fcontext -d -t var_log_t '/tmp/selinux(/.*)?'
semanage fcontext -d -t httpd_log_t '/tmp/selinux/log(/.*)?'
semanage fcontext -a -t var_log_t '/tmp/selinux(/.*)?'
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_log_t '/tmp/selinux/log(/.*)?'

4. rm -rf /tmp/selinux/
mkdir /tmp/selinux/log -p
touch /tmp/selinux/log/file

5. restorecon -Rv /tmp/selinux/

Actual results:

restorecon reset /tmp/selinux context
unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0->unconfined_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0
restorecon reset /tmp/selinux/log context
unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0->unconfined_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0
restorecon reset /tmp/selinux/log/file context
unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0->unconfined_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0

and after removing and adding the rules in different order:

restorecon reset /tmp/selinux context
unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0->unconfined_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0
restorecon reset /tmp/selinux/log context
unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0->unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_log_t:s0
restorecon reset /tmp/selinux/log/file context
unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0->unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_log_t:s0

Expected results:

both ways should be:

restorecon reset /tmp/selinux context
unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0->unconfined_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0
restorecon reset /tmp/selinux/log context
unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0->unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_log_t:s0
restorecon reset /tmp/selinux/log/file context
unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0->unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_log_t:s0

Additional info:
Comment 2 Miroslav Grepl 2015-10-12 08:07:35 UTC 
We have some fixes related to a context order in policycoreutils.
Comment 4 Vit Mojzis 2018-02-01 17:13:13 UTC 
Thank you for taking the time to report this issue to us. We appreciate the feedback and use reports such as this one to guide our efforts at improving our products. That being said, this particular issue is well documented and there is not a clear consensus about a better solution ( please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678577 ). 
The issue will be tracked in Fedora bug mentioned above. Closing as WONTFIX.
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