Bug 221704

Summary: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/readahead (readahead_t) "getattr" access to SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/readahead (readahead_t) "getattr" access to /dev/pts/1 (pppd_devpts_t)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Nirmal Tom <nirmaltom>
Component: readaheadAssignee: Karel Zak <kzak>
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Description Nirmal Tom 2007-01-06 13:23:25 UTC
Description of problem:
SELinux denied access requested by /usr/sbin/readahead. It is not expected
    that this access is required by /usr/sbin/readahead and this access may
    signal an intrusion attempt. It is also possible that the specific version
    or configuration of the application is causing it to require additional
    access. Please file a http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi
    against this package


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Affected RPM Packages:        readahead-1.3-5 [application]
Policy RPM:                   selinux-policy-2.3.18-10

How reproducible:
i am not sure,but i am unable to mount foreign partitions with write rights
especially ntfs,vfat with fuse and other packages required for ntfs-3g
installed.chmod command doesnt change the rights of directories if given as
shown below.So i run setroubleshoot which shows me the error i have attached and
asked me to file a bug report

Actual results:

[root@server mnt]# ls -l 
total 64
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root  8192 Jan  1  1970 Backup_hda6
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root  8192 Jan  1  1970 Documents_hda7
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 16384 Jan  1  1970 empty_sda1
drwxrwxrwx  1 root root  4096 Dec 18 02:20 GamesImageFiles_sda6
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 16384 Jan  1  1970 Media_sda5
drwxrwxrwx  1 root root  4096 Dec 27 02:09 Software_hda5
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root  1024 Dec 12 19:01 temp
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root  1024 Dec 18 16:09 virtualos_deb
drwxrwxrwx  1 root root  4096 Jan  4 18:51 WindowsXP_hda1
[root@server mnt]# chmod 755 /mnt/*
[root@server mnt]# ls -l
total 64
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root  8192 Jan  1  1970 Backup_hda6
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root  8192 Jan  1  1970 Documents_hda7
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 16384 Jan  1  1970 empty_sda1
drwxrwxrwx  1 root root  4096 Dec 18 02:20 GamesImageFiles_sda6
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 16384 Jan  1  1970 Media_sda5
drwxrwxrwx  1 root root  4096 Dec 27 02:09 Software_hda5
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  1024 Dec 12 19:01 temp
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  1024 Dec 18 16:09 virtualos_deb
drwxrwxrwx  1 root root  4096 Jan  4 18:51 WindowsXP_hda1
[root@server mnt]# chmod 777 /mnt/*
[root@server mnt]# ls -l
total 64
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root  8192 Jan  1  1970 Backup_hda6
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root  8192 Jan  1  1970 Documents_hda7
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 16384 Jan  1  1970 empty_sda1
drwxrwxrwx  1 root root  4096 Dec 18 02:20 GamesImageFiles_sda6
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 16384 Jan  1  1970 Media_sda5
drwxrwxrwx  1 root root  4096 Dec 27 02:09 Software_hda5
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root  1024 Dec 12 19:01 temp
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root  1024 Dec 18 16:09 virtualos_deb
drwxrwxrwx  1 root root  4096 Jan  4 18:51 WindowsXP_hda1

Additional info:
Raw Audit Messages:           

avc: denied { getattr } for comm="readahead" dev=devpts egid=0 euid=0
exe="/usr/sbin/readahead" exit=-13 fsgid=0 fsuid=0 gid=0 items=0 name="1"
path="/dev/pts/1" pid=2637 scontext=system_u:system_r:readahead_t:s0 sgid=0
subj=system_u:system_r:readahead_t:s0 suid=0 tclass=chr_file
tcontext=system_u:object_r:pppd_devpts_t:s0 tty=(none) uid=0

Comment 1 Nirmal Tom 2007-01-06 13:23:25 UTC
Created attachment 144968 [details]
setroubleshoot program's report

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 05:30:16 UTC
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

If you're currently running a version of Fedora Core between 1 and 6,
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If this bug is still open against Fedora Core 1 through 6, thirty days
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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 17:18:17 UTC
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen thus bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.