Re: [PATCH] security: Use org namespace for xattrs on macOS

On Thu, 2020-10-29 at 12:18 +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote: > On 10/29/20 11:49 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > Assuming macOS doesn't have any root-only namespaces, can we simply > > compile out the feature entirely on that OS? What about other targets > > like Windows? > > What do you mean by compile out? The whole security_uitl.c is divided > into two parts: the actual implementation if XATTR_NAMESPACE is set > (which is currently only on Linux + BSD) and stubs which do nothing but > report an error. > > Then, these internal APIs are called only from the secdrivers which we > don't build on Windows, do we? > > Roman, is there any misbehaviour you're seeing? Or is this just porting > the feature to macOS? I'm not against it, I just don't have anywhere to > test it. The issue Roman is trying to address with this patch is that qemusecuritytest fails reporting a bunch of Security Driver error : Extended attributes are not supported on this system: Function not implemented messages. I'm not very familiar with security drivers but I guess the question is: are xattrs a critical part of the security story, without which no isolation is possible at all, or is it conceivable to have security drivers that provide some amount of protection on macOS even though they can't go as far as they can on Linux and FreeBSD? In the former case we should modify the functions dealing with them so that they become successful no-ops, in the latter we should probably do what we do on Windows and not build the security drivers at all on macOS.