On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 12:27:20PM -0600, Harry G. Coin wrote: > > On 11/19/20 12:16 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 10:52:51AM -0600, Harry G. Coin wrote: > >> Hello virtiofs team. I need clarification about a 'restorecon' selinux > >> guest giving an 'operation not supported' response. > >> > >> If the host fs is btrfs (with xattr enabled in virtiofsd) but not > >> running SELinux, > > I suspect that on host setxattr(security.selinux) is failing with > > "operation not supported". > > > > What do you mean by host "not running SELinux". SElinux is not compiled > > in? Or it is disabled or in passive mode? > > > > Is it working with filesystems other than btrfs, say ext4 or xfs. > > > > Now qemu supports xattr remapping. You might want to run virtiofsd > > to remap security.selinux. I think that might get you going till > > the root cause of the issue is found. > > > > Vivek > > Thank you for the focus. The host os in this instance is not from the > fedora/rhel/centos world with selinux running. My case is a debian > sourced distro (ubuntu). That world uses 'apparmor' by default, not > selinux. I think it's reasonable to suppose there are a lot of servers > out there not running selinux that have lots of vms running on them, not > all using virtiofs. There should be a documented way to allow the > 'restorcon' command on one of many guests on such hosts to work. I > suppose to wrap this up: > > For the future readers who got here by searching, could you give the > first kernel version that supports a non-selinux host supporting an > selinux enabled guest and the virtiofsd command line necessary to get > the restorecon command to work normally?
I don't know yet. Because I don't know what's the root cause of the issue. The way you are explaining it, looks like host kernel somehow is blocking setxattr(security.selinux). And I have no idea why. Is it apparmor or something else. If no selinux module is loaded on host, then as long as virtiofsd process has CAP_SYS_ADMIN, it should be able to set security.selinux. "Operation not supported" means error "EOPNOTSUP". I am assuming you are running virtiofsd with "-o xattr" to make sure virtiofsd supports xattr. If that's the case somehow kernel is returning "EOPNOTSUP". Can you run virtiofsd with debug option -d and try to install that package in guest and capture outout of virtiofsd and post here. It might confirm that host kernel is returning error. Thanks Vivek > > Thanks in advance!! (And thanks for the work -- can't wait for dax to > make it into standard kernels!!) > > Harry Coin > > > > > > > >> and the guest has virtiofs root with selinux active, > >> what version [if any] for virtiofs is necessary before I can expect the > >> restorecon command to operate properly? (Or, maybe I've missed a config > >> setting somewhere?) > >> > >> Packages such as freeipa fail to install because they issue dozens of > >> 'restorecon' calls which fail using virtiofs. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Harry Coin > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Virtio-fs mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virtio-fs > _______________________________________________ Virtio-fs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virtio-fs
