Inputs to add SELINUX policy package on custom bsp

[Ashish Mishra]

Hi All ,

Good Morning .

I was trying to get FEDORA SELINUX policy on our custom BSP
Can the team please let me know their feedback / comments / inputs  on the
same .

Below is the description of what i am trying to do :

1) We are having a custom BSP ( Yocto / Buildroot ) for one of our
products.
    This BSP doesn't have SELINUX on it as of now.

2) I can find the policy ".te" file at*
https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy-contrib
https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy-contrib ( approx 1005
files )*
    But unable to understand the process of adding these policies to my
custom BSP.
*    Is there any way we can add these Fedora SELINUX policies to our BSP ?*

3) Is there any standard way of bifurcating these ".te" files or
    one has to make use of all of these as a standard practice.

Please feel free to seek any details or clarification from my side .
Also , do let me know if I am missing any aspect here or mis-understood
something  completely .

Thanks ,
Ashish Kumar Mishra

[Vit Mojzis]

Hi,

not sure how far along you are with SELinux intergration, so just to 
make sure you are on the same page...
In order for the policy to be useful you need SELinux kernel module and 
userspace tools.
It seems that Yocto already has SELinux layer 
(https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-selinux/) providing all 
the necessary parts including policy (based on refpolicy 
https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy). I believe using this 
policy would be your best bet since you wouldn't be the first one trying 
to use it in a custom BSP.

As for your questions below:
selinux-policy-contrib hosts policy modules for specific services. They 
need the base policy (https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy) 
to work. They are designed to work together, but you can choose which 
ones will be active in your system. As said, I believe you should start 
with refpolicy, but if you still want to use Fedora SELinux policy 
please let me know and I'll try to elaborate on the necessary steps.

If you want to learn more about SELinux, I recommend 
https://freecomputerbooks.com/books/The_SELinux_Notebook-4th_Edition.pdf 
(but you are still welcome to ask questions here)

Have a great day,
Vit

On 10/13/20 7:58 AM, Ashish Mishra wrote:
> Hi All ,
>
> Good Morning .
>
> I was trying to get FEDORA SELINUX policy on our custom BSP
> Can the team please let me know their feedback / comments / inputs  on 
> the same .
>
> Below is the description of what i am trying to do :
> We are having a custom BSP ( Yocto / Buildroot ) for one of our
>
> products.
>     This BSP doesn't have SELINUX on it as of now.
> I can find the policy ".te" file
>
> at*https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy-contrib ( approx 
> 1005 files )*
>     But unable to understand the process of adding these policies to 
> my custom BSP.
> *    Is there any way we can add these Fedora SELINUX policies to our 
> BSP ?*
> Is there any standard way of bifurcating these ".te" files or
>
> one has to make use of all of these as a standard practice.
>
> Please feel free to seek any details or clarification from my side .
> Also , do let me know if I am missing any aspect here or 
> mis-understood something  completely .
>
> Thanks ,
> Ashish Kumar Mishra
>
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[Ashish Mishra]

Hi Vit ,

Thanks for replying back on same.

a) We are in the initial evaluation phase .
      As you said will look at the details you shared.

b)  Will it be possible if you can please ,
      Share the approach in case we don't want to use Yocto or any such
tool.
      Like older bsp which was build using makefiles .
       This can give me few more pointer's to understand the standard
process in better way.

Apologies if these are too obvious question .
Since I am still at evaluation I wanted to have understanding of approach
as per community.

Thanks ,
Ashish Kumar Mishra.

[Vit Mojzis]

Hi,

I have no experience with building BSPs, but from what I understand the 
most important choice would be the Linux distribution used.
Generally, aside from security policy and userspace tools 
(https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux), which you should be able to 
compile and use just about anywhere, SELinux needs kernel 
(https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux-kernel) and file system 
support (see for example 
https://wiki.debian.org/SELinux/Setup#Prerequisites:_filesystems for 
more details about support in debian based systems).

Have a great day,

Vit

On 10/13/20 12:50 PM, Ashish Mishra wrote:
> Hi Vit ,
>
> Thanks for replying back on same.
>
> a) We are in the initial evaluation phase .
>       As you said will look at the details you shared.
>
> b)  Will it be possible if you can please ,
>       Share the approach in case we don't want to use Yocto or any 
> such tool.
>       Like older bsp which was build using makefiles .
>        This can give me few more pointer's to understand the standard 
> process in better way.
>
> Apologies if these are too obvious question .
> Since I am still at evaluation I wanted to have understanding of 
> approach as per community.
>
> Thanks ,
> Ashish Kumar Mishra.
>
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[Ashish Mishra]

Hi Vit , 
Thanks  for links and inputs . 
Will go through them .

Thanks ,
Ashish