Booting to Android userspace on 5.14 or newer triggers the following SELinux denial:
avc: denied { sys_nice } for comm="init" capability=23 scontext=u:r:init:s0 tcontext=u:r:init:s0 tclass=capability permissive=0
Init is PID 0 running as root, so it already has CAP_SYS_ADMIN. For better compatibility with older SEPolicy, check ADMIN before NICE.
Fixes: 9d3a39a5f1e4 ("block: grant IOPRIO_CLASS_RT to CAP_SYS_NICE") Signed-off-by: Alistair Delva adelva@google.com Cc: Khazhismel Kumykov khazhy@google.com Cc: Bart Van Assche bvanassche@acm.org Cc: Serge Hallyn serge@hallyn.com Cc: Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: Paul Moore paul@paul-moore.com Cc: selinux@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Cc: kernel-team@android.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.14+ --- block/ioprio.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/block/ioprio.c b/block/ioprio.c index 0e4ff245f2bf..4d59c559e057 100644 --- a/block/ioprio.c +++ b/block/ioprio.c @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ int ioprio_check_cap(int ioprio)
switch (class) { case IOPRIO_CLASS_RT: - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_NICE) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) && !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) return -EPERM; fallthrough; /* rt has prio field too */