Bug 1340611

Summary: SELinux is preventing firewalld from 'write' accesses on the directory root.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Joachim Frieben <jfrieben>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Lukas Vrabec <lvrabec>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: high    
Version: 25CC: 2284577490, alfan, alsoijw, amessina, dominick.grift, dpo, dwalsh, giuseppe.bonomelli95, gmarr, jfrieben, kparal, lvrabec, mcatanzaro+wrong-account-do-not-cc, mclasen, mgrepl, plautrba, robatino, sarapaula1993, twoerner
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Fixed In Version: selinux-policy-3.13.1-211.fc25 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Description Joachim Frieben 2016-05-28 19:32:57 UTC
Description of problem:
SELinux is preventing firewalld from 'write' accesses on the directory root.

*****  Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests   **************************

If you believe that firewalld should be allowed write access on the root directory by default.
Then you should report this as a bug.
You can generate a local policy module to allow this access.
Do
allow this access for now by executing:
# ausearch -c 'firewalld' --raw | audit2allow -M my-firewalld
# semodule -X 300 -i my-firewalld.pp

Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:firewalld_t:s0
Target Context                system_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0
Target Objects                root [ dir ]
Source                        firewalld
Source Path                   firewalld
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           
Target RPM Packages           filesystem-3.2-37.fc24.x86_64
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.13.1-192.fc25.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed) 4.7.0-0.rc0.git10.1.fc25.x86_64 #1
                              SMP Fri May 27 14:56:48 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   1
First Seen                    2016-05-28 19:11:10 CEST
Last Seen                     2016-05-28 19:11:10 CEST
Local ID                      8a3485b9-769f-48b6-8993-519e57e0d860

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1464455470.276:212): avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=832 comm="firewalld" name="root" dev="dm-0" ino=655362 scontext=system_u:system_r:firewalld_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 tclass=dir permissive=0


Hash: firewalld,firewalld_t,admin_home_t,dir,write

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.13.1-192.fc25.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.7.1
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         4.7.0-0.rc0.git10.1.fc25.x86_64
reproducible:   Not sure how to reproduce the problem
type:           libreport

Potential duplicate: bug 1329854

Comment 1 Lukas Vrabec 2016-06-02 12:31:14 UTC
*** Bug 1329854 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Lukas Vrabec 2016-06-02 12:32:53 UTC
Thomas, 
Whats going on here?

Comment 3 Thomas Woerner 2016-06-02 13:37:58 UTC
(In reply to Lukas Vrabec from comment #2)
> Thomas, 
> Whats going on here?

Lukas,
this is very unexpected as there is no code in firewalld that touches /root.

Comment 4 Thomas Woerner 2016-06-02 13:38:43 UTC
Which firewalld version is installed on the system?

Do you have steps to reproduce this?

Comment 5 Joachim Frieben 2016-06-02 13:49:18 UTC
When I reported the bug it was firewalld-0.4.1.2-2.fc25.

Comment 6 Daniel Walsh 2016-06-02 21:19:56 UTC
Probably some library that writes content in /root

Comment 7 Lukas Vrabec 2016-06-07 11:18:21 UTC
We can dontaudit it. 

Thomas,
Agree?

Comment 8 Thomas Woerner 2016-06-07 11:24:54 UTC
Hi Lukas, 
yes this might be possible.
Regards,
Thomas

Comment 9 Joachim Frieben 2016-07-16 07:39:16 UTC
Issue still present for firewalld-0.4.3.2-1.fc25.

Comment 10 Jan Kurik 2016-07-26 04:44:46 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 25 development cycle.
Changing version to '25'.

Comment 11 Anthony Messina 2016-07-31 18:15:15 UTC
(In reply to Daniel Walsh from comment #6)
> Probably some library that writes content in /root

On my Fedora 24 system, it was attempting to create the /root/.cache directory. I only found out because in permissive mode, the empty /root/.cache directory was created.

Comment 12 Thomas Woerner 2016-08-01 13:45:40 UTC
firewalld is not using /root/.cache at all. This needs to be hunted down.

Comment 13 Thomas Woerner 2016-08-01 13:47:54 UTC
After removing /root/.cache I am able to reproduce this. But I have absolutely no clue, why this happens.

Comment 14 Anthony Messina 2016-08-01 21:01:27 UTC
Me either:

type=AVC msg=audit(1470084516.47:178): avc:  denied  { create } for  pid=953 comm="firewalld" name=".cache" scontext=system_u:system_r:firewalld_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 tclass=dir permissive=1

Comment 15 Daniel Walsh 2016-08-07 16:57:09 UTC
It must be in one of the gnome libraries or gtk?

Comment 16 Kamil Páral 2016-08-16 06:22:11 UTC
Description of problem:
This popped up on me on first boot after a default Workstation Live install (Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-25-20160815.n.2.iso). I just started terminal and ran dnf, nothing else. Not sure whether this occurred before or after.

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-3.13.1-207.fc25.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.7.2
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         4.8.0-0.rc1.git0.1.fc25.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 17 Kamil Páral 2016-08-16 06:23:01 UTC
Proposing as a Final blocker:
"There must be no SELinux denial notifications or crash notifications on boot of or during installation from a release-blocking live image, or at first login after a default install of a release-blocking desktop. "
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_25_Final_Release_Criteria#SELinux_and_crash_notifications

Comment 18 Lukas Vrabec 2016-08-16 11:08:58 UTC
commit 48be02c9e486299e26df76a6698ed2ab4700c2e4
Author: Lukas Vrabec <lvrabec>
Date:   Tue Aug 16 13:08:25 2016 +0200

    Dontaudit firewalld to create dirs in /root/ BZ(1340611)

Comment 19 Anthony Messina 2016-08-18 20:16:58 UTC
This is subjective information, I know, but I believe this is related to having firewall-config installed--the issue only happens on my GUI workstations, where firewall-config is installed, but not my headless servers, where firewall-config is not.

Comment 20 Geoffrey Marr 2016-08-22 22:20:18 UTC
Discussed during the 2016-08-22 blocker review meeting: [1]

The decision to classify this bug as an AcceptedBlocker was made as it is a clear violation of "There must be no SELinux denial notifications or crash notifications on boot of or during installation from a release-blocking live image, or at first login after a default install of a release-blocking desktop."

[1] https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-blocker-review/2016-08-22/f25-blocker-review.2016-08-22-16.00.txt

Comment 21 Fedora Update System 2016-08-23 23:21:08 UTC
selinux-policy-3.13.1-210.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-2d8defc177

Comment 22 Fedora Update System 2016-08-25 18:21:08 UTC
selinux-policy-3.13.1-211.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-cbdde50ec4

Comment 23 Fedora Update System 2016-09-13 18:12:02 UTC
selinux-policy-3.13.1-211.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.