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<title>contrib/fedora: Actually install passt-repair SELinux policy file</title>
<updated>2025-02-19T22:33:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-02-18T08:49:40+00:00</published>
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Otherwise we build it, but we don't install it. Not an issue that
warrants a a release right away as it's anyway usable.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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Otherwise we build it, but we don't install it. Not an issue that
warrants a a release right away as it's anyway usable.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>Introduce passt-repair</title>
<updated>2025-02-04T00:28:04+00:00</updated>
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<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-01-27T23:03:13+00:00</published>
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A privileged helper to set/clear TCP_REPAIR on sockets on behalf of
passt. Not used yet.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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A privileged helper to set/clear TCP_REPAIR on sockets on behalf of
passt. Not used yet.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>fedora/rpkg: List myself as author for changelog entries</title>
<updated>2024-07-26T14:40:41+00:00</updated>
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<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2024-07-26T14:40:41+00:00</published>
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...instead of the latest author for contrib/fedora.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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...instead of the latest author for contrib/fedora.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>fedora: Switch license identifier to SPDX</title>
<updated>2024-03-18T07:57:47+00:00</updated>
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<name>Dan Čermák</name>
<email>dan.cermak@cgc-instruments.com</email>
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<published>2024-03-14T08:38:09+00:00</published>
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The spec file patch by Dan Čermák was originally contributed at:
  https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/passt/pull-request/1

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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The spec file patch by Dan Čermák was originally contributed at:
  https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/passt/pull-request/1

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>fedora: Replace pasta hard links by separate builds</title>
<updated>2023-09-06T23:57:00+00:00</updated>
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<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2023-09-06T23:57:00+00:00</published>
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The hard link trick didn't actually fix the issue with SELinux file
contexts properly: as opposed to symbolic links, SELinux now
correctly associates types to the labels that are set -- except that
those labels are now shared, so we can end up (depending on how
rpm(8) extracts the archives) with /usr/bin/passt having a
pasta_exec_t context.

This got rather confusing as running restorecon(8) seemed to fix up
labels -- but that's simply toggling between passt_exec_t and
pasta_exec_t for both links, because each invocation will just "fix"
the file with the mismatching context.

Replace the hard links with two separate builds of the binary, as
suggested by David. The build is reproducible, so we pass "-pasta" in
the VERSION for pasta's build. This is wasteful but better than the
alternative.

Just copying the binary over would otherwise cause issues with
debuginfo packages due to duplicate Build-IDs -- and rpmbuild(8) also
warns about them.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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The hard link trick didn't actually fix the issue with SELinux file
contexts properly: as opposed to symbolic links, SELinux now
correctly associates types to the labels that are set -- except that
those labels are now shared, so we can end up (depending on how
rpm(8) extracts the archives) with /usr/bin/passt having a
pasta_exec_t context.

This got rather confusing as running restorecon(8) seemed to fix up
labels -- but that's simply toggling between passt_exec_t and
pasta_exec_t for both links, because each invocation will just "fix"
the file with the mismatching context.

Replace the hard links with two separate builds of the binary, as
suggested by David. The build is reproducible, so we pass "-pasta" in
the VERSION for pasta's build. This is wasteful but better than the
alternative.

Just copying the binary over would otherwise cause issues with
debuginfo packages due to duplicate Build-IDs -- and rpmbuild(8) also
warns about them.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>fedora: Install pasta as hard link to ensure SELinux file context match</title>
<updated>2023-08-18T11:18:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2023-08-15T16:22:02+00:00</published>
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The Makefile installs symbolic links by default, which actually
worked at some point (not by design) with SELinux, but at least on
recent kernel versions it doesn't anymore: override pasta (and
pasta.avx2) with hard links.

Otherwise, even if the links are labeled as pasta_exec_t, SELinux
will "resolve" them to passt_exec_t, and we'll have pasta running as
passt_t instead of pasta_t.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
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The Makefile installs symbolic links by default, which actually
worked at some point (not by design) with SELinux, but at least on
recent kernel versions it doesn't anymore: override pasta (and
pasta.avx2) with hard links.

Otherwise, even if the links are labeled as pasta_exec_t, SELinux
will "resolve" them to passt_exec_t, and we'll have pasta running as
passt_t instead of pasta_t.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>passt: Relicense to GPL 2.0, or any later version</title>
<updated>2023-04-06T16:00:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2023-04-05T18:11:44+00:00</published>
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In practical terms, passt doesn't benefit from the additional
protection offered by the AGPL over the GPL, because it's not
suitable to be executed over a computer network.

Further, restricting the distribution under the version 3 of the GPL
wouldn't provide any practical advantage either, as long as the passt
codebase is concerned, and might cause unnecessary compatibility
dilemmas.

Change licensing terms to the GNU General Public License Version 2,
or any later version, with written permission from all current and
past contributors, namely: myself, David Gibson, Laine Stump, Andrea
Bolognani, Paul Holzinger, Richard W.M. Jones, Chris Kuhn, Florian
Weimer, Giuseppe Scrivano, Stefan Hajnoczi, and Vasiliy Ulyanov.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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In practical terms, passt doesn't benefit from the additional
protection offered by the AGPL over the GPL, because it's not
suitable to be executed over a computer network.

Further, restricting the distribution under the version 3 of the GPL
wouldn't provide any practical advantage either, as long as the passt
codebase is concerned, and might cause unnecessary compatibility
dilemmas.

Change licensing terms to the GNU General Public License Version 2,
or any later version, with written permission from all current and
past contributors, namely: myself, David Gibson, Laine Stump, Andrea
Bolognani, Paul Holzinger, Richard W.M. Jones, Chris Kuhn, Florian
Weimer, Giuseppe Scrivano, Stefan Hajnoczi, and Vasiliy Ulyanov.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>fedora: Adjust path for SELinux policy and interface file to latest guidelines</title>
<updated>2023-03-29T20:11:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2023-03-29T11:17:31+00:00</published>
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Forget about:
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux_Policy_Modules_Packaging_Draft

and:
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/SELinux_Independent_Policy

The guidelines to follow are:
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux/IndependentPolicy

Start from fixing the most pressing issue, that is, a path conflict
with policy-selinux-devel about passt.if, and, while at it, adjust
the installation paths for policy files too.

Reported-by: Xose Vazquez Perez &lt;xose.vazquez@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2182476
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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Forget about:
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux_Policy_Modules_Packaging_Draft

and:
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/SELinux_Independent_Policy

The guidelines to follow are:
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux/IndependentPolicy

Start from fixing the most pressing issue, that is, a path conflict
with policy-selinux-devel about passt.if, and, while at it, adjust
the installation paths for policy files too.

Reported-by: Xose Vazquez Perez &lt;xose.vazquez@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2182476
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>fedora: Don't install useless SELinux interface file for pasta</title>
<updated>2023-03-29T11:48:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2023-03-27T17:50:01+00:00</published>
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That was meant to be an example, and I just dropped it in the
previous commit -- passt.if should be more than enough as a possible
example.

Reported-by: Carl G. &lt;carlg@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2182145
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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That was meant to be an example, and I just dropped it in the
previous commit -- passt.if should be more than enough as a possible
example.

Reported-by: Carl G. &lt;carlg@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2182145
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>fedora: Refresh SELinux labels in scriptlets, require -selinux package</title>
<updated>2023-03-17T07:26:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2023-03-16T19:51:23+00:00</published>
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Instead of:
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux_Policy_Modules_Packaging_Draft

follow this:
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/SELinux_Independent_Policy

which seems to make more sense and fixes the issue that, on a fresh
install, without a reboot, the file contexts for the binaries are not
actually updated.

In detail:

- labels are refreshed using the selinux_relabel_pre and
  selinux_relabel_post on install, upgrade, and uninstall

- use the selinux_modules_install and selinux_modules_uninstall
  macros, instead of calling 'semodule' directly (no functional
  changes in our case)

- require the -selinux package on SELinux-enabled environments and if
  the current system policy is "targeted"

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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Instead of:
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux_Policy_Modules_Packaging_Draft

follow this:
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/SELinux_Independent_Policy

which seems to make more sense and fixes the issue that, on a fresh
install, without a reboot, the file contexts for the binaries are not
actually updated.

In detail:

- labels are refreshed using the selinux_relabel_pre and
  selinux_relabel_post on install, upgrade, and uninstall

- use the selinux_modules_install and selinux_modules_uninstall
  macros, instead of calling 'semodule' directly (no functional
  changes in our case)

- require the -selinux package on SELinux-enabled environments and if
  the current system policy is "targeted"

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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