Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools: make flask utils build unconditional

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 16:13 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 03:36:21PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 14:37 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > 
> > > which on the basis of this discussion I wasn't expecting. I didn't
> > > see this
> > > new file on i686 or ARM*.
> > > 
> > > My baseline is from the last time I committed, which would be last
> > > year, so
> > > maybe something other than my current batch of patches has caused
> > > this.
> > > 
> > > I'm going to drop this one for now and (hopefully) get the rest of
> > > the
> > > batch squared away. Afterwards I'll take another look (with a new
> > > baseline
> > > filelist), but if someone can explain it in the meantime that would
> > > be
> > > super.
> > 
> > So with a fresh basline I still see:
> > 
> > --- ../FILE_LIST.BASE.staging.x86_64ÂÂÂÂ2016-01-05 14:50:32.000000000
> > +0000
> > +++ ../FILE_LIST.staging.x86_64 2016-01-05 15:11:15.000000000 +0000
> > @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
> > Âdist/install/boot/xen-4.7-unstable.gz
> > Âdist/install/boot/xen-4.gz
> > Âdist/install/boot/xen.gz
> > +dist/install/boot/xenpolicy-4.7-unstable
> > Âdist/install/etc
> > Âdist/install/etc/bash_completion.d
> > Âdist/install/etc/bash_completion.d/xl.sh
> > @@ -386,6 +387,12 @@
> > Âdist/install/usr/local/lib/xen/libexec
> > Âdist/install/usr/local/lib/xen/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper
> > Âdist/install/usr/local/sbin
> > +dist/install/usr/local/sbin/flask-get-bool
> > +dist/install/usr/local/sbin/flask-getenforce
> > +dist/install/usr/local/sbin/flask-label-pci
> > +dist/install/usr/local/sbin/flask-loadpolicy
> > +dist/install/usr/local/sbin/flask-set-bool
> > +dist/install/usr/local/sbin/flask-setenforce
> > Âdist/install/usr/local/sbin/gdbsx
> > Âdist/install/usr/local/sbin/gtracestat
> > Âdist/install/usr/local/sbin/gtraceview
> > *** FILES DIFFER ***
> > 
> > On i686 and ARM* I only see the (expected) second hunk.
> > 
> > I think the i686 case is explainable by the lack of a hypervisor build
> > there, but I'm unsure why ARM* and x86_64 should differ in this regard.
> > 
> > config/Tools.mk is y only on x86_64, not on the others, which obviously
> > explains things, but the question is why only on x86_64 (I presume this
> > has
> > always been the case and it was previously masked, but I've not
> > checked).
> > 
> > Ah, OK, I misread
> > 
> > AX_ARG_DEFAULT_ENABLE([xsmpolicy], [Disable XSM policy compilation])
> > 
> > as being default disable, actually the default is "enabled iff
> > checkpolicy
> > is installed" and it happens to be that it is only installed in my
> > x86_64
> > build env.
> > 
> > So, in the end I think Wei was correct and this change will now, in
> > some
> > circumstances, end up installing a /boot/xenpolicy-*.
> > 
> 
> I don't think it is related to this patch. I see an xenpoilcy file
> without this patch applied.

With XSM disabled?

>  As you said it only depends on availability
> of checkpolicy (part of generic SELinux utils, not the ones we build).

But then why does this file only show up for me with this patch applied?

You initially objected to this patch because you thought it would add this
file, but it seems like you have always had it. Is the answer just that you
only just found that you always had it?

> 
> That said, let me try to answer the following question.
> 
> > So the question is do we mind that?
> > 
> 
> We might or might not. See below.
> 
> I once submitted a patch to grub that look into /boot and generate XSM
> entries if there is policy file. The patch is not yet merged though.
> 
> Since there is no way at the moment to tell if xen.gz has flask enabled,
> my not yet upstreamed patch only matches the version number of xen.gz and
> xenpolicy. Installing xenpolicy when xen.gz is not flaks-capable will
> make grub generate an XSM entry nonetheless, which makes no sense.

Indeed.

> Of course all the above is based on the theory that my grub patch is
> going to be upstreamed.
> 
> Things have changed since I first submitted that patch. Doug's Kconfig
> work is good. With .config installed in suitable location we can make
> grub grep for flask information in config, hence avoiding generating
> wrong entries.ÂÂI think this is better solution as we don't need to use
> version number to match xen.gz and xenpolicy. If we go down this route
> we don't mind having random xenpolicy lying around in /boot.

> We just need to reach an agreement on how to proceed. I would vote for
> the second solution.

Which is what? This patch as is? (and what is the first proposition?)

Ian.

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