Bug 429549
| Summary: | SELinux is preventing /usr/libexec/hal-storage-mount (hald_t) "getattr" access to /swapfile (swapfile_t). | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Bill Kriebel <bilkay> |
| Component: | selinux-policy | Assignee: | Daniel Walsh <dwalsh> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 5.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | RHBA-2008-0465 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2008-05-21 16:06:32 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Fixed in /selinux-policy-2.4.6-116.el5 This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0465.html |
Description of problem: Installed CentOS 5.1 w/o swap partition. After installation, created /swapfile and proceeded iaw man mkswap. Added following to /etc/fstab: /swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 After yum updates, started getting the following message in /var/log/messages on boot: Jan 20 13:30:50 localhost setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing /usr/libexec/hal-storage-mount (hald_t) "getattr" access to /swapfile (swapfile_t). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 87e7ef9e-4e5d-49ef-8d50-3219114ebaa9 Running sealert yields: Summary SELinux is preventing /usr/libexec/hal-storage-mount (hald_t) "getattr" access to /swapfile (swapfile_t). Detailed Description SELinux denied access requested by /usr/libexec/hal-storage-mount. It is not expected that this access is required by /usr/libexec/hal-storage-mount 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. Allowing Access Sometimes labeling problems can cause SELinux denials. You could try to restore the default system file context for /swapfile, restorecon -v /swapfile. There is currently no automatic way to allow this access. Instead, you can generate a local policy module to allow this access - see http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc5/#id2961385 - or you can disable SELinux protection entirely for the application. Disabling SELinux protection is not recommended. Please file a http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi against this package. Changing the "hald_disable_trans" boolean to true will disable SELinux protection this application: "setsebool -P hald_disable_trans=1." The following command will allow this access: setsebool -P hald_disable_trans=1 Additional Information Source Context system_u:system_r:hald_t Target Context root:object_r:swapfile_t Target Objects /swapfile [ file ] Affected RPM Packages hal-0.5.8.1-25.el5_1.1 [application] Policy RPM selinux-policy-2.4.6-106.el5_1.3 Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted MLS Enabled True Enforcing Mode Enforcing Plugin Name plugins.disable_trans Host Name localhost.localdomain Platform Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 #1 SMP Fri Nov 30 00:45:16 EST 2007 i686 i686 Alert Count 1 Line Numbers Raw Audit Messages avc: denied { getattr } for comm="hal-storage-mou" dev=hda10 egid=0 euid=0 exe="/usr/libexec/hal-storage-mount" exit=-13 fsgid=0 fsuid=0 gid=0 items=0 path="/swapfile" pid=16794 scontext=system_u:system_r:hald_t:s0 sgid=0 subj=system_u:system_r:hald_t:s0 suid=0 tclass=file tcontext=root:object_r:swapfile_t:s0 tty=(none) uid=0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Every boot. Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: