Rename obsolete netlink_firewall_socket and netlink_ip6fw_socket classes

The implementation for NETLINK_FIREWALL and NETLINK_IP6_FW protocols
was removed from the kernel in commit
d16cf20e2f2f13411eece7f7fb72c17d141c4a84 ("netfilter: remove ip_queue
support") circa Linux 3.5.  Consequently, kernels >= 3.5 should never
perform permission checks on these classes although they remained
defined in the SELinux kernel classmap until the netlink classes
were updated by
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6c6d2e9bde1c1c87a7ead806f8f5e2181d41a652
circa Linux v4.2.

Removing these class definitions would break legacy userspace that relies
upon stable values for the userspace security class definitions since it
will perturb those values by removing classes that preceded them.  dbus-daemon
in particular is known to break if its dbus class changes at runtime,
which could occur upon a policy reload that removes these classes.
Fixing this requires ensuring that dbus-daemon looks up the appropriate
class value on each use or upon policy reload, via userspace interfaces
such as selinux_check_access(), string_to_security_class(), and/or
selinux_set_callback(SELINUX_CB_POLICYLOAD, ...) with a callback function
that remaps the class value if needed.  Other userspace policy enforcers
are believed to have been updated in recent versions but older versions
may break upon such a change.

Hence, this change renames these classes with obsolete_ prefixes and
removes all rules referencing them from refpolicy, thereby preserving
the class numbering for subsequent classes while making it clear that
these classses are no longer meaningful for modern kernels.

This change does however create a potential compatibility break for
kernels < 3.5, since the policy will cease to define the kernel class
names and therefore the kernel will handle permission checks on the
class based on the handle_unknown setting in policy.  For most
Linux distributions, this will default to allow and therefore avoid
breaking userspace but will fail open.  For kernels < 2.6.33 (i.e.
the dynamic class/perm discovery support), the presence of a class
in policy with the same number but a different name than the kernel
class will cause the policy load to fail entirely.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Jason Zaman <perfinion@gentoo.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/policy/support/obj_perm_sets.spt b/policy/support/obj_perm_sets.spt
index c34fef69d..00b4873bc 100644
--- a/policy/support/obj_perm_sets.spt
+++ b/policy/support/obj_perm_sets.spt
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ define(`devfile_class_set', `{ blk_file chr_file }')
 #
 # All socket classes.
 #
-define(`socket_class_set', `{ tcp_socket udp_socket rawip_socket netlink_socket packet_socket unix_stream_socket unix_dgram_socket appletalk_socket netlink_route_socket netlink_firewall_socket netlink_tcpdiag_socket netlink_nflog_socket netlink_xfrm_socket netlink_selinux_socket netlink_audit_socket netlink_ip6fw_socket netlink_dnrt_socket netlink_kobject_uevent_socket tun_socket netlink_iscsi_socket netlink_fib_lookup_socket netlink_connector_socket netlink_netfilter_socket netlink_generic_socket netlink_scsitransport_socket netlink_rdma_socket netlink_crypto_socket sctp_socket icmp_socket ax25_socket ipx_socket netrom_socket atmpvc_socket x25_socket rose_socket decnet_socket atmsvc_socket rds_socket irda_socket pppox_socket llc_socket can_socket tipc_socket bluetooth_socket iucv_socket rxrpc_socket isdn_socket phonet_socket ieee802154_socket caif_socket alg_socket nfc_socket vsock_socket kcm_socket qipcrtr_socket smc_socket xdp_socket }')
+define(`socket_class_set', `{ tcp_socket udp_socket rawip_socket netlink_socket packet_socket unix_stream_socket unix_dgram_socket appletalk_socket netlink_route_socket netlink_tcpdiag_socket netlink_nflog_socket netlink_xfrm_socket netlink_selinux_socket netlink_audit_socket netlink_dnrt_socket netlink_kobject_uevent_socket tun_socket netlink_iscsi_socket netlink_fib_lookup_socket netlink_connector_socket netlink_netfilter_socket netlink_generic_socket netlink_scsitransport_socket netlink_rdma_socket netlink_crypto_socket sctp_socket icmp_socket ax25_socket ipx_socket netrom_socket atmpvc_socket x25_socket rose_socket decnet_socket atmsvc_socket rds_socket irda_socket pppox_socket llc_socket can_socket tipc_socket bluetooth_socket iucv_socket rxrpc_socket isdn_socket phonet_socket ieee802154_socket caif_socket alg_socket nfc_socket vsock_socket kcm_socket qipcrtr_socket smc_socket xdp_socket }')
 
 #
 # Datagram socket classes.