Alexander Vodomerov wrote:

I've put GHC in unconfined_execmem_t and it started to work fine.  But
the problem is not in GHC -- it is in programs compiled by GHC. They
also require exec/write memory. Only root can grant unconfined_execmem
privileges, so simple user can not run binaries compiled by GHC. How do
you solve this problem?

Running "chcon -t unconfined_execmem_exec_t" as root will let you run the binaries, which you probably already knew.

The underlying problem is harder to fix: the default SELinux policy doesn't allow PROT_EXEC pages to be mapped with PROT_WRITE, for obvious reasons. The solution is expensive in terms of address space and TLB entries: map the same pages twice, once only with PROT_EXEC, and once only with PROT_WRITE.

There's already a Trac ticket filed against this problem, but Simon Marlow marked it as closed because he couldn't test the code he wrote to try to fix it, and nobody stepped in to help out at the time: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/738

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