libsemanage: semanage_store: recursively create SEMANAGE_ROOT

In package build/install environments, when semodule(8) is passed the
`--path` option, it is expected that it creates the entire directory
tree for the policy root.

Some package managers warn or error if permissions do not align between
the tree on the existing system and the build environment about to be
merged. To make sure this is a non-issue, create the tree of the policy
root with 0755 permissions (in line with standards for `/var/lib`) and
then chmod the final path to the more restrictive 0700 permissions. As
the contents being placed in the policy root are security sensitive,
error instead of warning if we fail to chown the policy root to 0700.

Signed-off-by: Rahul Sandhu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <[email protected]>

Author: WavyEbuilder

libsemanage/src/semanage_store.c

@@ -491,6 +491,45 @@ char *semanage_conf_path(void)
 	return semanage_conf;
 }
 
+/* Recursively create a directory from a path string.
+ * Returns 0 on success, -errno on failure.
+ */
+static int mkdir_recursive(const char *path, mode_t mode)
+{
+	if (!path || !*path) {
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	char path_buffer[PATH_MAX] = {0};
+	size_t len = strlen(path);
+	/* + 1 for nullterm.  */
+	if (len + 1 > sizeof(path_buffer)) {
+		return -ENAMETOOLONG;
+	}
+
+	/* + 1 for nullterm.  */
+	memcpy(path_buffer, path, len + 1);
+
+	/* trim possible trailing slashes, except if '/' is the entire path.  */
+	while (len > 1 && path_buffer[len - 1] == '/') {
+		path_buffer[--len] = '\0';
+	}
+
+	for (char *pos = path_buffer + 1, *slash; (slash = strchr(pos, '/')); pos = slash + 1) {
+		*slash = '\0';
+		if (mkdir(path_buffer, mode) != 0 && errno != EEXIST) {
+			return -errno;
+		}
+		*slash = '/';
+	}
+
+	if (mkdir(path_buffer, mode) != 0 && errno != EEXIST) {
+		return -errno;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /**************** functions that create module store ***************/
 
 /* Check that the semanage store exists.  If 'create' is non-zero then
@@ -506,14 +545,20 @@ int semanage_create_store(semanage_handle_t * sh, int create)
 
 	if (stat(path, &sb) == -1) {
 		if (errno == ENOENT && create) {
-			mask = umask(0077);
-			if (mkdir(path, S_IRWXU) == -1) {
-				umask(mask);
-				ERR(sh, "Could not create module store at %s.",
-				    path);
+			/* First we create directories recursively with standard permissions so that
+			   we don't screw up ownership of toplevel dirs such as `/var` in pkgmgr
+			   environments.  */
+			const int r = mkdir_recursive(path, (mode_t)0755);
+			if (r != 0) {
+				ERR(sh, "Could not create module store at %s: %s.", path, strerror(-r));
+				return -2;
+			}
+			/* Now that we've created the directory tree, we set the permissions of the
+			   target path to 0700. */
+			if (chmod(path, (mode_t)0700) != 0) {
+				ERR(sh, "Failed to chown module store at %s: %s.", path, strerror(errno));
 				return -2;
 			}
-			umask(mask);
 		} else {
 			if (create)
 				ERR(sh,
@@ -529,6 +574,8 @@ int semanage_create_store(semanage_handle_t * sh, int create)
 			return -1;
 		}
 	}
+	/* We no longer need to use mkdir_recursive at this point: the toplevel
+	   directory hierarchy has been created by now.  */
 	path = semanage_path(SEMANAGE_ACTIVE, SEMANAGE_TOPLEVEL);
 	if (stat(path, &sb) == -1) {
 		if (errno == ENOENT && create) {