Ubuntu Manpage: selinux_restorecon - restore file(s) default SELinux security contexts

Provided by: libselinux1-dev_3.5-1_amd64

NAME

       selinux_restorecon - restore file(s) default SELinux security contexts

SYNOPSIS

       #include <selinux/restorecon.h>

       int selinux_restorecon(const char *pathname,
                              unsigned int restorecon_flags);

       int selinux_restorecon_parallel(const char *pathname,
                                       unsigned int restorecon_flags,
                                       size_t nthreads);

DESCRIPTION

selinux_restorecon() restores file default security contexts on filesystems that support
extended attributes (see xattr(7)), based on:

pathname containing a directory or file to be relabeled.
If this is a directory and the restorecon_flags SELINUX_RESTORECON_RECURSE has been
set (for descending through directories), then selinux_restorecon() will write an
SHA1 digest of specfile entries calculated by
selabel_get_digests_all_partial_matches(3) to an extended attribute of
security.sehash once the relabeling has been completed successfully (see the NOTES
section for details).
These digests will be checked should selinux_restorecon() be rerun with the
restorecon_flags SELINUX_RESTORECON_RECURSE flag set. If any of the specfile
entries had been updated, the digest will also be updated. However if the digest is
the same, no relabeling checks will take place.
The restorecon_flags that can be used to manage the usage of the SHA1 digest are:
SELINUX_RESTORECON_SKIP_DIGEST
SELINUX_RESTORECON_IGNORE_DIGEST

restorecon_flags contains the labeling option/rules as follows:

SELINUX_RESTORECON_SKIP_DIGEST Do not check or update any extended attribute
security.sehash entries.

SELINUX_RESTORECON_IGNORE_DIGEST force the checking of labels even if the
stored SHA1 digest matches the specfile entries SHA1 digest. The specfile
entries digest will be written to the security.sehash extended attribute
once relabeling has been completed successfully provided the
SELINUX_RESTORECON_NOCHANGE flag has not been set, and no errors have been
skipped during the file tree walk due to the SELINUX_RESTORECON_COUNT_ERRORS
flag.

SELINUX_RESTORECON_NOCHANGE don't change any file labels (passive check) or
update the digest in the security.sehash extended attribute.

SELINUX_RESTORECON_SET_SPECFILE_CTX If set, reset the files label to match
the default specfile context. If not set only reset the files "type"
component of the context to match the default specfile context.

SELINUX_RESTORECON_RECURSE change file and directory labels recursively
(descend directories) and if successful write an SHA1 digest of the specfile
entries to an extended attribute as described in the NOTES section.

SELINUX_RESTORECON_VERBOSE log file label changes.
Note that if SELINUX_RESTORECON_VERBOSE and
SELINUX_RESTORECON_PROGRESS flags are set, then
SELINUX_RESTORECON_PROGRESS will take precedence.

SELINUX_RESTORECON_PROGRESS show progress by outputting the number of files
in 1k blocks processed to stdout. If the SELINUX_RESTORECON_MASS_RELABEL
flag is also set then the approximate percentage complete will be shown.

SELINUX_RESTORECON_MASS_RELABEL generally set when relabeling the entire OS,
that will then show the approximate percentage complete. The
SELINUX_RESTORECON_PROGRESS flag must also be set.

SELINUX_RESTORECON_REALPATH convert passed-in pathname to the canonical
pathname using realpath(3).

SELINUX_RESTORECON_XDEV prevent descending into directories that have a
different device number than the pathname entry from which the descent
began.

SELINUX_RESTORECON_ADD_ASSOC attempt to add an association between an inode
and a specification. If there is already an association for the inode and it
conflicts with the specification, then use the last matching specification.

SELINUX_RESTORECON_ABORT_ON_ERROR abort on errors during the file tree walk.

SELINUX_RESTORECON_SYSLOG_CHANGES log any label changes to syslog(3).

SELINUX_RESTORECON_LOG_MATCHES log what specfile context matched each file.

SELINUX_RESTORECON_IGNORE_NOENTRY ignore files that do not exist.

SELINUX_RESTORECON_IGNORE_MOUNTS do not read /proc/mounts to obtain a list
of non-seclabel mounts to be excluded from relabeling checks.
Setting SELINUX_RESTORECON_IGNORE_MOUNTS is useful where there is a non-
seclabel fs mounted with a seclabel fs mounted on a directory below this.

SELINUX_RESTORECON_CONFLICT_ERROR to treat conflicting specifications, such
as where two hardlinks for the same inode have different contexts, as
errors.

SELINUX_RESTORECON_COUNT_ERRORS Count, but otherwise ignore, errors during
the file tree walk. Only makes a difference if the
SELINUX_RESTORECON_ABORT_ON_ERROR flag is clear. Call
selinux_restorecon_get_skipped_errors(3) for fetching the ignored (skipped)
error count after selinux_restorecon(3) or selinux_restorecon_parallel(3)
completes with success. In case any errors were skipped during the file tree
walk, the specfile entries SHA1 digest will not have been written to the
security.sehash extended attribute.

The behavior regarding the checking and updating of the SHA1 digest described above
is the default behavior. It is possible to change this by first calling
selabel_open(3) and not enabling the SELABEL_OPT_DIGEST option, then calling
selinux_restorecon_set_sehandle(3) to set the handle to be used by
selinux_restorecon(3).

If the pathname is a directory path, then it is possible to set directories to be
excluded from the path by calling selinux_restorecon_set_exclude_list(3) with a
NULL terminated list before calling selinux_restorecon(3).

By default selinux_restorecon(3) reads /proc/mounts to obtain a list of non-
seclabel mounts to be excluded from relabeling checks unless the
SELINUX_RESTORECON_IGNORE_MOUNTS flag has been set.

selinux_restorecon_parallel() is similar to selinux_restorecon(3), but accepts another
parameter that allows to run relabeling over multiple threads:

nthreads specifies the number of threads to use during relabeling. When set to 1,
the behavior is the same as calling selinux_restorecon(3). When set to 0, the
function will try to use as many threads as there are online CPU cores. When set to
any other number, the function will try to use the given number of threads.

Note that to use the parallel relabeling capability, the calling process must be
linked with the libpthread library (either at compile time or dynamically at run
time). Otherwise the function will print a warning and fall back to the single
threaded mode.

RETURN VALUE

       On success, zero is returned.  On error, -1 is returned and errno is set appropriately.

NOTES

       1.  To   improve   performance   when   relabeling  file  systems  recursively  (e.g.  the
           restorecon_flags SELINUX_RESTORECON_RECURSE flag  is  set)  selinux_restorecon()  will
           write   a   calculated   SHA1   digest   of   the   specfile   entries   returned   by
           selabel_get_digests_all_partial_matches(3)   to   an    extended    attribute    named
           security.sehash for each directory in the pathname path.

       2.  To check the extended attribute entry use getfattr(1), for example:

                  getfattr -e hex -n security.sehash /

       3.  Should any of the specfile entries have changed, then when selinux_restorecon() is run
           again  with  the  SELINUX_RESTORECON_RECURSE  flag  set,  new  SHA1  digests  will  be
           calculated  and  all  files  automatically  relabeled depending on the settings of the
           SELINUX_RESTORECON_SET_SPECFILE_CTX flag (provided SELINUX_RESTORECON_NOCHANGE is  not
           set).

       4.  /sys  and  in-memory filesystems do not support the security.sehash extended attribute
           and are automatically excluded from any relabeling checks.

       5.  By default stderr is used to log output messages and errors. This may  be  changed  by
           calling selinux_set_callback(3) with the SELINUX_CB_LOG type option.

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