[Bug 876968] Re: host Apparmor rules are applied to guests in spite of guests loading new rules

Serge Hallyn 876968 at bugs.launchpad.net
Tue Oct 18 18:21:23 UTC 2011


Quoting John Johansen (john.johansen at canonical.com):
> Well I won't agree the guest shouldn't have its own policy (it depends
> on your use case), but I do agree the host should be able to set a
> domain to protect it self from the guest, but until AppArmor supports
> policy stacking the solution is either or.
> 
> The solution depends on what confinement is sought.
> 
> 1. If the guest is to have its own policy, then the host needs to create
> a new policy namespace, and then it needs to transition the guest to the
> new namespace.  Guest policy will then be loaded into the new namespace,
> and will not generally* conflict with system policy.

That's great - can the guest's namespace have constraints placed on
it by the host rules, which all domains in the guest namespace will
be subject to?

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