Bug 432948

Summary: virsh warning messages caused by SELinux
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mark McLoughlin <markmc>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Daniel Veillard <veillard>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Mark McLoughlin 2008-02-15 11:43:33 UTC
On rawhide, doing:

  $> ./virsh list
  libvir: Remote error : remoteDispatchClientRequest: internal error: library
function returned error but did not set virterror
  libvir: warning : Failed to find the network: Is the daemon running ?
   Id Name                 State
  ----------------------------------
    0 Domain-0             running

the warning goes away with SELinux in permissive mode

Denial details:

SELinux is preventing libvirtd (virtd_t) "dac_override" to <Unknown> (virtd_t).

host=zig type=AVC msg=audit(1203074426.175:139): avc:  denied  { dac_override }
for  pid=2437 comm="libvirtd" capability=1 scontext=system_u:system_r:virtd_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:system_r:virtd_t:s0 tclass=capability

host=zig type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1203074426.175:139): arch=40000003 syscall=5
success=no exit=-13 a0=71161c a1=2 a2=20bc0 a3=91fb5c0 items=0 ppid=1 pid=2437
auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0
tty=(none) comm="libvirtd" exe="/usr/sbin/libvirtd"
subj=system_u:system_r:virtd_t:s0 key=(null)


If I allow that, then I get:

SELinux is preventing libvirtd (virtd_t) "read" to ./privcmd (proc_xen_t).

host=zig type=AVC msg=audit(1203075507.240:186): avc:  denied  { read } for 
pid=2437 comm="libvirtd" name="privcmd" dev=proc ino=-268434280
scontext=system_u:system_r:virtd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:proc_xen_t:s0
tclass=file

host=zig type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1203075507.240:186): arch=40000003 syscall=5
success=no exit=-13 a0=71161c a1=2 a2=20bc0 a3=91fb5d0 items=0 ppid=1 pid=2437
auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0
tty=(none) comm="libvirtd" exe="/usr/sbin/libvirtd"
subj=system_u:system_r:virtd_t:s0 key=(null)



Allowing that makes the warning go away

Both denials result in:

  open("/proc/xen/privcmd", O_RDWR)       = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 05:12:57 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 23:34:10 UTC
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Comment 3 Daniel Walsh 2009-06-10 10:23:16 UTC
This is fixed in the current release.