Bug 592947

Summary: service xendomains status - fails due to selinux, can't read xen config file
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: David Kovalsky <dkovalsk>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 5.5CC: benl, xen-maint
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Description David Kovalsky 2010-05-17 12:57:26 UTC
I've noticed that in 5.5 `service xendomains status' doesn't work. Returns 1.

# service xendomains status
Checking for xendomains:Error: Unable to open config file: /etc/xen/auto/private.xen
....
 MISS AUTO:       [dead]                                   [FAILED]


# echo $?
1

/var/log/audit/audit.log contains these entries.

14508 type=AVC msg=audit(1274100371.856:18735): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=10953 comm="xm" name="private.xen" dev=md3 ino=246341 scontext=root:system_r:xm_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:virt_etc_rw_t:s0 tclass=lnk_file

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2010-05-17 13:05:35 UTC
Miroslav add
	manage_lnk_files_pattern($1, virt_etc_rw_t, virt_etc_rw_t)

To virt_manage_config

Comment 2 Miroslav Grepl 2010-05-17 16:40:10 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 579497 ***