Bug 539866

Summary:

SELinux is preventing umount (mount_t) "unlink" to /etc/mtab (etc_t).

Detailed Description:

SELinux denied access requested by umount. /etc/mtab may be a mislabeled.
/etc/mtab default SELinux type is etc_runtime_t, but its current type is etc_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 '/etc/mtab', if this file is a directory, you can
recursively restore using restorecon -R '/etc/mtab'.

Fix Command:

restorecon '/etc/mtab'

Additional Information:

Source Context                system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Context                system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0
Target Objects                /etc/mtab [ file ]
Source                        umount
Source Path                   /bin/umount
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           util-linux-ng-2.14.2-11.fc11
Target RPM Packages           setup-2.8.3-3.fc11
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.6.12-86.fc11
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Plugin Name                   restorecon
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed) 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i586
                              #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 23:33:04 EST 2009 i686 i686
Alert Count                   1
First Seen                    Sun 08 Nov 2009 07:53:17 AM IST
Last Seen                     Sun 08 Nov 2009 07:53:17 AM IST
Local ID                      4fda2875-70b4-437a-950e-f9c8c409f9e0
Line Numbers                  

Raw Audit Messages            

node=(removed) type=AVC msg=audit(1257646997.944:115): avc:  denied  { unlink } for  pid=27212 comm="umount" name="mtab" dev=sda1 ino=1869274 scontext=system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0 tclass=file

node=(removed) type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1257646997.944:115): arch=40000003 syscall=38 success=no exit=-13 a0=b2d4ab a1=b2d47a a2=b2fbe8 a3=4 items=0 ppid=2133 pid=27212 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="umount" exe="/bin/umount" subj=system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)



Hash String generated from  selinux-policy-3.6.12-86.fc11,restorecon,umount,mount_t,etc_t,file,unlink
audit2allow suggests:

#============= mount_t ==============
allow mount_t etc_t:file unlink;