[CentOS] SELinux vs. virsh

Sat Aug 23 14:45:45 UTC 2014
Bill Gee <bgee at campercaver.net>

On Friday, August 22, 2014 08:50:26 Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> On 08/21/2014 10:03 AM, Bill Gee wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 21, 2014 12:00:03 centos-request at centos.org wrote:
> >> Re: [CentOS] SELinux vs. logwatch and virsh
> >> From: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com>
> >> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> >> 
> >> On 08/18/2014 02:13 PM, Bill Gee wrote:
> >>> Hi Dan -
> >>> 
> >>> "ausearch -m avc -ts recent" produces no output.  If I run it as
> >>> "ausearch
> >>> -f  virsh" then it produces output similar to this.  Each day's run of
> >>> logwatch produces three of these audit log entries.  The a1 and a2
> >>> values
> >>> are different for each entry, but everything else is the same.
> >>> 
> >>> ===============
> >>> time->Mon Aug 18 03:21:03 2014
> >>> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1408350063.257:7492): arch=c000003e syscall=21
> >>> success=no exit=-13 a0=11ee230 a1=4 a2=7fff722837b0 a3=7fff72283640
> >>> items=0  ppid=2815 pid=2816 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0
> >>> egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=981 comm="bash" exe="/usr/bin/bash"
> >>> subj=system_u:system_r:logwatch_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
> >>> type=AVC msg=audit(1408350063.257:7492): avc:  denied  { read }
> >>> for  pid=2816  comm="bash" name="virsh" dev="dm-0" ino=135911290
> >>> scontext=system_u:system_r:logwatch_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
> >>> tcontext=system_u:object_r:virsh_exec_t:s0 tclass=file
> >>> ===============
> >>> 
> >>> I thought about using audit2allow as you suggest.  The problem is then I
> >>> don't  really know what change is required.  What exactly will it
> >>> do?  And is there a guarantee that it will work?
> >> 
> >> logwatch is executing virsh probably to communicate with libvirt to
> >> rotate logs or something.  You can look in /etc/logrotate.d for a script
> >> with virsh to tell you what the command is trying to do.
> > 
> > Hi Dan -
> > 
> > I know EXACTLY what virsh is being called for.  I wrote the script!  It
> > has
> > nothing to do with logrotate.  I want virsh to tell logwatch what the
> > status is of all virtual machines running on the host.  Logwatch will
> > then include that in its daily summary report.  SELinux is getting in the
> > way.
> > 
> > Regards - Bill Gee
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> Well logrotate is calling the script, and you just need to add the allow
> rules to allow logrotate to execute the script and communicate with
> libvirt.   Or you need to run the script in a separate cron job to
> collect the data before the logrotate script runs.
> 
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Hi Dan -

Oops, I screwed up the subject line on the last posting.  Hopefully corrected 
with this message.

Comment - I changed my configuration so that virsh is run by a script in 
cron.daily rather than being called from logwatch.  It saves output to a file 
in /tmp.  Logwatch was changed to simply "cat" the file.  However, this STILL 
produces an SELinux violation.  I am not any closer to the goal.

Question - How do I add an "allow" rule to SELinux?  What exactly is to be 
allowed and how is SELinux told to do it?

Here is what ausearch finds:

=====================
time->Sat Aug 23 03:06:04 2014
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1408781164.014:1373): arch=c000003e syscall=2 
success=no exit=-13 a0=7fffb24e3da6 a1=0 a2=1fffffffffff0000 a3=7fffb24e31d0 items=0 
ppid=25741 pid=25742 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 
fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=127 comm="cat" exe="/usr/bin/cat" 
subj=system_u:system_r:logwatch_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
type=AVC msg=audit(1408781164.014:1373): avc:  denied  { open } for  pid=25742 
comm="cat" path="/tmp/libvirt-status" dev="dm-0" ino=768471 
scontext=system_u:system_r:logwatch_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 
tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0 tclass=file

=====================

Observation - My original idea on this is to have logwatch execute virsh 
directly.  I know it is possible to make that work.  The same computer has two 
other logwatch items that I created.  One of them runs uptime and the other 
runs sensors.  Both work perfectly.  I see that the uptime and sensors 
programs are set for SELinux type=bin_t, which is not the same as what virsh 
is set for.  I think what I need to do is figure out how to ADD (not replace) a 
new type on the virsh program.

Thanks - Bill Gee