selinux: fall back to SECURITY_FS_USE_GENFS if no xattr support
When a superblock is assigned the SECURITY_FS_USE_XATTR behavior by the policy yet it lacks xattr support, try to fall back to genfs rather than rejecting the mount. If a genfscon rule is found for the filesystem, then change the behavior to SECURITY_FS_USE_GENFS, otherwise reject the mount as before. A similar fallback is already done in security_fs_use() if no behavior specification is found for the given filesystem. This is needed e.g. for virtiofs, which may or may not support xattrs depending on the backing host filesystem. Example: # seinfo --genfs | grep ' ramfs' genfscon ramfs / system_u:object_r:ramfs_t:s0 # echo '(fsuse xattr ramfs (system_u object_r fs_t ((s0) (s0))))' >ramfs_xattr.cil # semodule -i ramfs_xattr.cil # mount -t ramfs none /mnt Before: mount: /mnt: mount(2) system call failed: Operation not supported. After: (mount succeeds) # ls -Zd /mnt system_u:object_r:ramfs_t:s0 /mnt See also: https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/20210105142148.GA3200@redhat.com/T/ https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy/pull/478 Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
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