Bug 502705

Description of problem:
SELinux is preventing fprintd (fprintd_t) "read" to / (usbfs_t)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep selinux | sort
libselinux-2.0.80-1.fc11.i586
libselinux-devel-2.0.80-1.fc11.i586
libselinux-python-2.0.80-1.fc11.i586
libselinux-utils-2.0.80-1.fc11.i586
selinux-policy-3.6.12-39.fc11.noarch
selinux-policy-targeted-3.6.12-39.fc11.noarch


I installed a Fedora 11 xen guest on RHEL5.4 beta (I don't see how that could be the problem) with default package selection.  After running the guest for less than 10 minutes I saw two of these AVCs.

I'm marking this as a blocker based on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/ReleaseCriteria#Sanity


Summary:

SELinux is preventing fprintd (fprintd_t) "read" to / (usbfs_t).

Detailed Description:

SELinux denied access requested by fprintd. / may be a mislabeled. / default
SELinux type is root_t, but its current type is usbfs_t. Changing this file back
to the default type, may fix your problem.

File contexts can be assigned to a file in the following ways.

  * Files created in a directory receive the file context of the parent
    directory by default.
  * The SELinux policy might override the default label inherited from the
    parent directory by specifying a process running in context A which creates
    a file in a directory labeled B will instead create the file with label C.
    An example of this would be the dhcp client running with the dhclient_t type
    and creates a file in the directory /etc. This file would normally receive
    the etc_t type due to parental inheritance but instead the file is labeled
    with the net_conf_t type because the SELinux policy specifies this.
  * Users can change the file context on a file using tools such as chcon, or
    restorecon.

This file could have been mislabeled either by user error, or if an normally
confined application was run under the wrong domain.

However, this might also indicate a bug in SELinux because the file should not
have been labeled with this type.

If you believe this is a bug, please file a bug report
(http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi) against this package.

Allowing Access:

You can restore the default system context to this file by executing the
restorecon command. restorecon '/', if this file is a directory, you can
recursively restore using restorecon -R '/'.

Fix Command:

restorecon '/'

Additional Information:

Source Context                system_u:system_r:fprintd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Context                system_u:object_r:usbfs_t:s0
Target Objects                / [ dir ]
Source                        fprintd
Source Path                   /usr/libexec/fprintd
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          localhost.localdomain
Source RPM Packages           fprintd-0.1-9.git04fd09cfa.fc11
Target RPM Packages           filesystem-2.4.21-1.fc11
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.6.12-39.fc11
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
MLS Enabled                   True
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Plugin Name                   restorecon
Host Name                     localhost.localdomain
Platform                      Linux localhost.localdomain
                              2.6.29.3-155.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Wed May 20
                              17:31:09 EDT 2009 i686 i686
Alert Count                   2
First Seen                    Tue 26 May 2009 07:27:01 PM PDT
Last Seen                     Tue 26 May 2009 07:27:01 PM PDT
Local ID                      b56c33ba-423f-43b4-b922-db0a71035665
Line Numbers                  

Raw Audit Messages            

node=localhost.localdomain type=AVC msg=audit(1243391221.50:36396): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=2037 comm="fprintd" name="/" dev=usbfs ino=1964 scontext=system_u:system_r:fprintd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:usbfs_t:s0 tclass=dir

node=localhost.localdomain type=AVC msg=audit(1243391221.50:36396): avc:  denied  { open } for  pid=2037 comm="fprintd" name="/" dev=usbfs ino=1964 scontext=system_u:system_r:fprintd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:usbfs_t:s0 tclass=dir

node=localhost.localdomain type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1243391221.50:36396): arch=40000003 syscall=5 success=yes exit=3 a0=13882f a1=98800 a2=13b470 a3=8706f18 items=0 ppid=2036 pid=2037 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="fprintd" exe="/usr/libexec/fprintd" subj=system_u:system_r:fprintd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)