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Bug 1357949 - SELinux is preventing kexec from using the 'sys_admin' capabilities.
Summary: SELinux is preventing kexec from using the 'sys_admin' capabilities.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy
Version: 24
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Lukas Vrabec
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: abrt_hash:f0287f4f154edfc849418636e50...
: 1372796 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-07-19 16:16 UTC by Juan Orti
Modified: 2016-09-22 00:23 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version: selinux-policy-3.13.1-191.16.fc24
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Last Closed: 2016-09-22 00:23:28 UTC
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Description Juan Orti 2016-07-19 16:16:44 UTC 
Description of problem:
SELinux is preventing kexec from using the 'sys_admin' capabilities.

*****  Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests   **************************

If cree que kexec debería tener la capacidad sys_admin de forma predeterminada.
Then debería reportar esto como un error.
Puede generar un módulo de política local para permitir este acceso.
Do
allow this access for now by executing:
# ausearch -c 'kexec' --raw | audit2allow -M my-kexec
# semodule -X 300 -i my-kexec.pp

Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:kdump_t:s0
Target Context                system_u:system_r:kdump_t:s0
Target Objects                Unknown [ capability ]
Source                        kexec
Source Path                   kexec
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.13.1-191.5.fc24.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed) 4.6.3-300.fc24.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri
                              Jun 24 20:52:41 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   747
First Seen                    2016-07-19 14:21:11 CEST
Last Seen                     2016-07-19 17:49:29 CEST
Local ID                      8e77b924-91b8-4d19-93ea-870e94f40059

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1468943369.762:503): avc:  denied  { sys_admin } for  pid=3161 comm="kexec" capability=21  scontext=system_u:system_r:kdump_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:kdump_t:s0 tclass=capability permissive=0


Hash: kexec,kdump_t,kdump_t,capability,sys_admin

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.13.1-191.5.fc24.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.7.1
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         4.6.3-300.fc24.x86_64
reproducible:   Not sure how to reproduce the problem
type:           libreport
Comment 1 Hubert Kario 2016-07-21 10:21:26 UTC 
Description of problem:
normal system startup, though it's a system I have upgraded since Fedora 18, so there may be some leftovers

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.13.1-158.15.fc23.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.7.1
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         4.6.4-301.fc24.x86_64
reproducible:   Not sure how to reproduce the problem
type:           libreport
Comment 2 Juan Orti 2016-07-26 19:31:19 UTC 
Description of problem:
systemctl start kdump.service

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.13.1-191.5.fc24.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.7.2
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         4.6.4-301.fc24.x86_64
type:           libreport
Comment 3 Oliver Henshaw 2016-08-22 11:54:31 UTC 
Also on F23. Seems like a regression though I don't know what changed to cause it, kexec-tools hasn't been updated since upgrading to F23. Maybe a kernel update?

selinux-policy-targeted-3.13.1-158.21.fc23.noarch
kexec-tools-2.0.10-10.fc23.x86_64
kernel-4.6.4-201.fc23.x86_64 (MAYBE GOOD?)
kernel-4.6.6-200.fc23.x86_64
Comment 4 Oliver Henshaw 2016-08-30 15:10:11 UTC 
kernel-4.5.7-202.fc23.x86_64 GOOD
kernel-4.6.4-201.fc23.x86_64 BAD

Checked old "journal -b" and confirmed by booting into kernel-4.5.7-202.fc23.x86_64. So it's likely some kernel change that is causing kexec to hit an SElinux denial. Any ideas?
Comment 5 Dave Young 2016-08-31 01:01:03 UTC 
Hi,

One possible commit is in 4.6.0 /proc/iomem can only be read by process with CAP_SYS_ADMIN, so for non-root users they can not see it.

Linus said no need worry about fine grained capabilities, that means kexec run as root so it should be ok.

Upstream commit:

commit 51d7b120418e99d6b3bf8df9eb3cc31e8171dee4
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds>
Date:   Thu Apr 14 12:05:37 2016 -0700

    /proc/iomem: only expose physical resource addresses to privileged users
    
    In commit c4004b02f8e5b ("x86: remove the kernel code/data/bss resources
    from /proc/iomem") I was hoping to remove the phyiscal kernel address
    data from /proc/iomem entirely, but that had to be reverted because some
    system programs actually use it.
    
    This limits all the detailed resource information to properly
    credentialed users instead.
    
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds>

Thanks
Dave
Comment 6 Daniel Walsh 2016-08-31 11:00:11 UTC 
Looks like we should just add a dontaudit rules. Or does kdump actually need to read this?
Comment 7 Dave Young 2016-08-31 23:29:14 UTC 
Daniel, do you means kexec run with root still lacks SYS_ADMIN capabilities?  If so add a rule should be necessary because kexec-tools depend on reading /proc/iomem in its source code.
Comment 8 Daniel Walsh 2016-09-01 12:32:21 UTC 
Ok if it depends on that then it needs sys_admin so we need to add the rule.
Comment 9 Dave Young 2016-09-05 01:07:49 UTC 
*** Bug 1372796 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2016-09-15 17:25:04 UTC 
selinux-policy-3.13.1-191.16.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-fe39b806b6
Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2016-09-16 00:52:41 UTC 
selinux-policy-3.13.1-191.16.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-fe39b806b6
Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2016-09-22 00:23:28 UTC 
selinux-policy-3.13.1-191.16.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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