FreeBSD 9.1 MAC Multilabel on nullfs

Andreas Jonsson andreas at romab.com
Wed Feb 6 16:54:13 UTC 2013


Hi List!
Don't see much discussion about MAC here, time to change that! :-)

Currently trying to set up a service jail, according to instructions in
the handbook[1]. The problem I'm facing is that nullfs does not seem to
support multilabeled filesystems, or am i missing something?

ls -lZ /usr/js/testjail/var/run/test
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  biba/equal 0 Feb  6 17:15
/usr/js/testjail/var/run/test

Nullfs-mounting it inside the jail:
ls -lZ /usr/j/testjail/s/var/run/test
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  biba/high 0 Feb  6 17:15
/usr/j/testjail/s/var/run/test

Currently, it looks like this:
/usr/j/mroot on /usr/j/testjail (nullfs, local, nosuid, read-only)
/usr/js/testjail on /usr/j/testjail/s (nullfs, local, nosuid)
devfs on /usr/j/testjail/dev (devfs, local, multilabel)

>From inside the jail, (where this directory is mounted), the following
maclabel appears to be the following instead:
# ls -lZ /var/run/test
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  biba/high 0 Feb  6 16:15 /var/run/test

Does the list have any suggestions for workarounds? One alternative
would be to create a jail without shared root filesystems and skip
nullfs, but perhaps there are other tricks i am not aware of?

BR
Andreas

[1].
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails-application.html


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