binding and listening to port work with SELinux, but the process is unable receive data from clients

SZIGETVÁRI János <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.selinux
Message-ID <CAJK_Yh8TVZu+HReAu5KeGJ28XUYc9QONn9wDja7CygyTnL-xaQ@mail.gmail.com>
Dear Members,

Sorry for bothering you with my questions but I am kind of stuck with my
problem, that's why I turn to you now.

I am in the process of creating a SELinux policy for a software module, of
a larger application.
The module is simply a server, that listens on a port, and forwards the
received information through a Unix domain socket to the main application.
I got most parts of the policy right by now, in the sense that the module
can start, and I don't see any AVC denied entries in the SELinux audit log.

The relevant parts of my policy are the following (I have substituted the
module's name with ABCD):

type ABCD_t;
type ABCD_port_t;

corenet_port(ABCD_port_t);

corenet_tcp_bind_generic_node(ABCD_t);
corenet_tcp_sendrecv_generic_node(ABCD_t);
corenet_tcp_sendrecv_generic_if(ABCD_t);
allow ABCD_t ABCD_port_t:tcp_socket { name_bind };

allow ABCD_t self:unix_dgram_socket { create connect getattr setopt };
allow ABCD_t self:tcp_socket { accept bind create getattr listen setopt };


In the policy builder script also use

semanage port -a -t ABCD_port_t -p tcp 1234 2>/dev/null || semanage port -m
-t ABCD_port_t -p tcp 1234 2>/dev/null


What I see with my current policy (with SELinux in Enforcing mode), is that
the module starts up seemingly okay, it binds to the appropriate port, but
see errors like this:

2019-03-19T16:08:14.314+0100    ERROR   HTTP server     error when serving
connection "172.16.0.90:5986"<->"172.16.0.92:53952": error when reading
request headers: read tcp4 172.16.0.90:5986->172.16.0.92:53952: read:
permission denied
2019-03-19T16:08:14.315+0100    ERROR   HTTP server     error when serving
connection "172.16.0.90:5986"<->"172.16.0.92:53953": error when reading
request headers: read tcp4 172.16.0.90:5986->172.16.0.92:53953: read:
permission denied


In addition to this, I see nothing in the SELinux audit log, and when I put
SELinux in permissive mode, things start working again.
I am puzzled at this point why I'm not seeing anything in audit.log. If it
is in deed SELinux that's blocking the read attempts, then there should be
some information about that. Right?

Thank you for your help!

Best Regards,
János Szigetvári
--
Janos SZIGETVARI
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