libvirt/src/security
Daniel P. Berrange 0c0e0d0263 Refactor setup & cleanup of security labels in security driver
The current security driver architecture has the following
split of logic

 * domainGenSecurityLabel

    Allocate the unique label for the domain about to be started

 * domainGetSecurityLabel

    Retrieve the current live security label for a process

 * domainSetSecurityLabel

    Apply the previously allocated label to the current process
    Setup all disk image / device labelling

 * domainRestoreSecurityLabel

    Restore the original disk image / device labelling.
    Release the unique label for the domain

The 'domainSetSecurityLabel' method is special because it runs
in the context of the child process between the fork + exec.

This is require in order to set the process label. It is not
required in order to label disks/devices though. Having the
disk labelling code run in the child process limits what it
can do.

In particularly libvirtd would like to remember the current
disk image label, and only change shared image labels for the
first VM to start. This requires use & update of global state
in the libvirtd daemon, and thus cannot run in the child
process context.

The solution is to split domainSetSecurityLabel into two parts,
one applies process label, and the other handles disk image
labelling. At the same time domainRestoreSecurityLabel is
similarly split, just so that it matches the style. Thus the
previous 4 methods are replaced by the following 6 new methods

 * domainGenSecurityLabel

    Allocate the unique label for the domain about to be started
    No actual change here.

 * domainReleaseSecurityLabel

   Release the unique label for the domain

 * domainGetSecurityProcessLabel

   Retrieve the current live security label for a process
   Merely renamed for clarity.

 * domainSetSecurityProcessLabel

   Apply the previously allocated label to the current process

 * domainRestoreSecurityAllLabel

    Restore the original disk image / device labelling.

 * domainSetSecurityAllLabel

    Setup all disk image / device labelling

The SELinux and AppArmour drivers are then updated to comply with
this new spec. Notice that the AppArmour driver was actually a
little different. It was creating its profile for the disk image
and device labels in the 'domainGenSecurityLabel' method, where as
the SELinux driver did it in 'domainSetSecurityLabel'. With the
new method split, we can have consistency, with both drivers doing
that in the domainSetSecurityAllLabel method.

NB, the AppArmour changes here haven't been compiled so may not
build.
2010-01-21 14:00:16 +00:00
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security_apparmor.c Refactor setup & cleanup of security labels in security driver 2010-01-21 14:00:16 +00:00
security_apparmor.h sVirt AppArmor security driver 2009-10-08 16:34:22 +02:00
security_driver.c Various error reporting fixes 2009-11-03 16:46:54 -05:00
security_driver.h Refactor setup & cleanup of security labels in security driver 2010-01-21 14:00:16 +00:00
security_selinux.c Refactor setup & cleanup of security labels in security driver 2010-01-21 14:00:16 +00:00
security_selinux.h Move security drivers to src/security/ 2009-09-21 14:41:44 +01:00
virt-aa-helper.c Fix compilation of virt-aa-helper.c 2010-01-15 12:06:03 +01:00