apparmor rcS.d sysv initscript is running too late

Bug #1298539 reported by Jamie Strandboge
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From IRC:

12:50 < infinity> jdstrand: Could it be that slangasek's assertion about network interfaces only delaying rc2 is wrong, and it in fact delays all of sysvinit? That would pretty much explain that paste.
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12:53 < slangasek> ok, so /etc/init.d/rcS is run from the bottom of /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf, which does key on static network up
12:53 < slangasek> I thought we had better interleaving of /etc/rcS.d with the rest of the system
12:53 < slangasek> jdstrand: so yeah, any late apparmoring that you're seeing is actually related to us having made /etc/rc2.d non-racy, without noticing that this also holds up /etc/rcS.d :/
12:54 < slangasek> proper fix would be to split out /etc/rcS.d handling, and make it wait for the local filesystem but not the network
12:54 < infinity> slangasek: So, curious followup. Why do I have a console?
12:54 < jdstrand> slangasek: oh! it is great to know the cause
12:55 < infinity> slangasek: My hvc0 job is "start on stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345]", is that basically a complete lie, given how we're running rcS/rc2?
12:56 < jdstrand> slangasek: since I use network-manager, the fact that I don't see it locally is consistent with your understanding of the issue, correct?
12:56 < slangasek> jdstrand: correct
12:57 < jdstrand> I never saw it in a vm cause I almost always do desktop installs in them
12:57 < slangasek> infinity: ummmm ok, yeah, I don't know why you would have a console with output from rc2.d showing up then
12:58 < slangasek> infinity: because 'stopped rc RUNLEVEL=[2345]' should mean the console starts only after all of rc2.d is done running
12:58 < infinity> slangasek: That's what I would think, yes.
12:58 < jdstrand> slangasek: so, is there something that can be done for 14.04 for this? (like I said, we can't to the cache pregeneration/upstart job change before 14.10/SRU)
12:59 < infinity> slangasek: And really, while delayed boots are annoying (and they are), the larger complaint is actually that these late starts scribble all over the getty, making it confusingly non-obvious that a login prompt has happened. :P

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

Any progress on this bug? It prevents an important security measure from being in effect.

tags: added: rls-t-incoming
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Having discussed on IRC, I don't believe /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf being delayed explains the symptoms described. User processes are started from a login session, which would be launched via lightdm; lightdm is 'start on runlevel and [...]', and the runlevel event is strictly later than the point at which we run the rcS scripts from rc-sysinit.conf.

If this were processes related to individual upstart jobs in /etc/init that might start before runlevel 2, then this could explain it; but given the problem described is with firefox being unconfined, that doesn't seem related to the delayed apparmor profile loading because firefox and lightdm are also delayed in that case.

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote :

we could move just run profile loading earlier, ahead of remote filesystems, as an upstart job:

description "Pre-cache and load apparmor profiles"
task
start on local-filesystems and not-container
script
 . ./lib/apparmor/functions
 [ -w "$AA_SFS"/.load ] || { stop; exit 0; }
 load_configured_profiles
end script

Also desktop is a bit too quick to observe the ordering here. But e.g. it looks like on ubuntu-touch network-manager is started ahead of loading all apparmor profiles, the network-manager job does not load profiles for binaries that it uses and it can spawn e.g. dhclient see:
http://people.canonical.com/~ogra/touch-bootcharts/ubuntu-phablet-trusty-283.png

dhclient did not execute ahead of apparmor_profile launched by xargs, but it think it could be on a cold boot when profiles are regenerated for all .clicks.

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

xnox and I discussed this quite a bit and I filed bug #1305108 to deal with apparmor policy load. Since slangasek believes the console logging to be a different issue, lets separate the issues and use this bug for console logging and bug #1305108 for policy load (since this bug has all the irc conversation for console logging).

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