Bug 709779

Description of problem:
P2V conversion of a F14 installation: used rsync -aHAXx to duplicate file systems from hysical to virtual host.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rsync-3.0.8-1.fc14.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
Physical-2-Virtual conversion of a F14 installation: used rsync -aHAXx to duplicate file systems from physical to virtual host.

Actual results:
on source:
lrwxrwxrwx. root root system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0       /lib64/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.13.so
on target:
lrwxrwxrwx. root root unconfined_u:object_r:file_t:s0  /lib64/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.13.so

These changed security contexts for symlinks cause the boot of the newly created VM to fail unless boot parameter selinux=0 is used.


Expected results:
Newly created VM bots nicely

Additional info:
Reproducer:

mkdir SRC
touch SRC/file
ln -s file SRC/link
chcon -h system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0 SRC/*
ls -Z SRC
-rw-r--r--. root root system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0       file
lrwxrwxrwx. root root system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0       link -> file

mkdir TGT
rsync -aHAXx SRC/ TGT
ls -Z TGT
-rw-r--r--. root root system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0       file
lrwxrwxrwx. root root unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0 link -> file

This seems to have been a deliberate change in rsync:

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5458
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7109

The reason given for this change was a reference to the attr(5) man page:   
"For this reason, extended user attributes are only allowed for regular files and directories, ...". However, that section applies to *user* attributes only. The changes made so rsync affect all attribute name spaces, 


commit 9d6fe1a6f0233c7567dfb114835751aff85a578b
Author: Wayne Davison <wayned>
Date:   Mon Jan 3 11:07:47 2011 -0800

    Avoid reading ACL/xattr info on filetypes not being copied.
    Make Linux avoid xattr access on symlinks.
    Make OS X avoid xattr access on device/special files.
    Fixes bug 5458.

M       acls.c
M       configure.ac
M       flist.c
M       xattrs.c