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.
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.
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.
Ping?
chrome policy is stored in reference policy upstream. If you want to modify it, I would suggest you send patches there.
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.
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?
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.
Ok, I will send a patch to upstream. Adam, I will add you to CC.
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Since everyone else is doing it, I'll ping too. Happy new year! :)
I submitted the current Fedora policy for upstream acceptance.
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