AppArmor logs denial for when the device path is ENOENT

Bug #1482943 reported by John Johansen
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Bug Description

Example log message

[ 303.419688] audit: type=1400 audit(1438946700.236:9): apparmor="DENIED" operation="mount" profile="lxd_lxd_0.14-git0" name="/var/lib/apps/lxd/0.14-git0/dev/lxd/" pid=940 comm="lxd" flags="rw, bind"

where the mount tried to
  bind -o bind,rw "/var/lib/apps/lxd/0.14-git0/lxd/devlxd" "/var/lib/apps/lxd/0.14-git0/dev/lxd/"

but the src path "/var/lib/apps/lxd/0.14-git0/lxd/devlxd" does not exist.

The reason apparmor logs a denial is because to tries to lookup the kern_path of the src as parth of determining permissions and fails. However this mount will fail even with apparmor disabled as the same kernel_path call is made by the bind mount path after security_sb_mount has granted permission.

If apparmor is going to log this message it should report info, error, and srcname like below, so it is clear why it is failing.

[ 303.419688] audit: type=1400 audit(1438946700.236:9): apparmor="DENIED" operation="mount" info="failed dev name lookup" error=-2 profile="lxd_lxd_0.14-git0" name="/var/lib/apps/lxd/0.14-git0/dev/lxd/" pid=940 comm="lxd" srcname="/var/lib/apps/lxd/0.14-git0/lxd/devlxd" flags="rw, bind"

Revision history for this message
John Johansen (jjohansen) wrote :

Fix is in the apparmor 3.5 kernel patches

Changed in apparmor:
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in apparmor:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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