From: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
To: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>,
Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Cc: selinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Race between policy reload sidtab conversion and live conversion
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:36:52 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210223223652.GD6000@sequoia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210223215054.GC6000@sequoia>
On 2021-02-23 15:50:56, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> On 2021-02-23 15:43:48, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> > I'm seeing a race during policy load while the "regular" sidtab
> > conversion is happening and a live conversion starts to take place in
> > sidtab_context_to_sid().
> >
> > We have an initial policy that's loaded by systemd ~0.6s into boot and
> > then another policy gets loaded ~2-3s into boot. That second policy load
> > is what hits the race condition situation because the sidtab is only
> > partially populated and there's a decent amount of filesystem operations
> > happening, at the same time, which are triggering live conversions.
Hmm, perhaps this is the same problem that's fixed by Ondrej's proposed
change here:
https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/20210212185930.130477-3-omosnace@redhat.com/
I'll put these changes through a validation run (the only place that I
can seem to reproduce this crash) and see how it looks.
Tyler
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-23 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-23 21:43 [BUG] Race between policy reload sidtab conversion and live conversion Tyler Hicks
2021-02-23 21:50 ` Tyler Hicks
2021-02-23 22:36 ` Tyler Hicks [this message]
2021-02-24 0:02 ` Paul Moore
2021-02-24 9:33 ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2021-02-24 14:36 ` Tyler Hicks
2021-02-25 16:38 ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2021-02-25 16:45 ` Tyler Hicks
2021-02-25 23:27 ` Paul Moore
2021-02-26 1:06 ` Paul Moore
2021-02-26 11:11 ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2021-02-28 19:21 ` Paul Moore
2021-03-01 10:35 ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2021-03-01 14:46 ` Paul Moore
[not found] ` <20210226040542.1137-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2021-02-26 11:19 ` Ondrej Mosnacek
[not found] ` <20210227023524.15844-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2021-03-01 14:35 ` Ondrej Mosnacek
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