Bug 881834

Summary: watchdog runs as initrc_t
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Patrik Kis <pkis>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Michal Trunecka <mtruneck>
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Version: 6.3CC: dwalsh, ebenes, mmalik, mtruneck
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Fixed In Version: selinux-policy-3.7.19-210.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-11-21 10:11:15 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Patrik Kis 2012-11-29 16:33:13 UTC 
Description of problem:
The watchdog daemon runs with incorrect selinux context.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-3.7.19-154.el6.noarch
selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-154.el6.noarch
watchdog-5.5-10.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
# service watchdog status
watchdog (pid  9121) is running...
# ps -elZ | grep 9121
unconfined_u:system_r:initrc_t:s0 5 S   0  9121     1  0  58   - -  1032 hrtime ?        00:00:00 watchdog

Actual results:
it runs with initrc_t

Expected results:
it should run with its own selinux label

Additional info:
Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-11-29 16:37:52 UTC 
OK ...  I have no clue how to fix this, so I'm
going to reassign it to selinux-policy.
Comment 3 Miroslav Grepl 2012-11-29 16:47:32 UTC 
I see we have policy files but the policy is not activated for a reason.

Patrik,
does it cause any issue?

Do you see AVC msgs?
Comment 4 Patrik Kis 2012-11-29 17:20:14 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> I see we have policy files but the policy is not activated for a reason.
> 
> Patrik,
> does it cause any issue?
> 
> Do you see AVC msgs?

Actually not, there are no AVCs, but I do not do any testing with watchdog, just started it a saw the initrc_t label.
Isn't that an error itself?
Comment 5 Miroslav Grepl 2012-11-29 17:25:38 UTC 
Yes, it is.

But it is also pretty risky to add a new policy in this phase without testing in Fedora at least.
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-21 10:11:15 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1598.html