Re: [RFC] containers module in refpolicy

Russell Coker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.selinux-refpolicy
Message-ID <1926875.vxbSVt8UrT@xev>
On Thursday, 12 August 2021 8:07:28 AM AEST Kenton Groombridge wrote:
> At this time refpolicy does not have much (if any) support for various
> container runtimes such as docker or podman. An issue was raised on
> container-selinux[1] about the possibility of allowing it to be built
> against refpolicy, but the question came up of whether or not it would
> be a better idea to instead introduce such a module specifically in
> refpolicy. Upstream seems to be open to the idea of making
> container-selinux work with refpolicy, but I worry that the task of
> maintaining the module will be more work in the long run.
> 
> What are your thoughts?

We have more than a few policy modules that aren't used by the regular 
contributors to refpolicy and which aren't well maintained.  Adding one more 
is no big deal.

Generally having a module in upstream policy that does most of what you want 
is better than nothing, you can just have a local module to do the remainder.  
When the types needed are defined it removes the potential compatibility 
issues of different implementations.

Where is the [1] reference?

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