Bug 998974

Summary: setsebool prints bad nonexisting-boolean error message, only once after permanent booleans change
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Michal Trunecka <mtruneck>
Component: policycoreutilsAssignee: Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 6.5CC: borgan, dwalsh, ebenes, jpazdziora, mgrepl, mkovarik, mmalik, sbose, sforsber, spoore, tlavigne
Target Milestone: betaKeywords: Regression
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: policycoreutils-2.0.83-19.35.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 1002529 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-11-21 11:08:19 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 972747, 993793    

Description Michal Trunecka 2013-08-20 12:56:00 UTC
Description of problem:

When trying to permanently change nonexisting boolean, following error message is shown:
"Failed to change boolean xyz: Success"

But it happens only once after some other correct permanent boolean change:

###### correct permanent change
    # setsebool -P ftp_home_dir 1

###### Trying to change non-existing boolean, bad error only once:
    # setsebool -P xyz=1
    Failed to change boolean xyz: Success
    # setsebool -P xyz=1
    Failed to change boolean xyz: No such file or directory
    # setsebool -P xyz=1
    Failed to change boolean xyz: No such file or directory

###### correct permanent change
    # setsebool -P ftp_home_dir 0

###### Trying to change non-existing boolean:
    # setsebool -P xyz=1
    Failed to change boolean xyz: Success
    # setsebool -P xyz=1
    Failed to change boolean xyz: No such file or directory


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
policycoreutils-2.0.83-19.32.el6.x86_64

Comment 1 Miroslav Grepl 2013-08-28 11:48:20 UTC
We could change to have

#setsebool -P aa=1
Could not change boolean aa
#echo $?
255
#setsebool -P ftp_home_dir 0
#echo $?
0
#setsebool -P aa=1
Could not change boolean aa
#echo $?
255

So we won't see the issue which Michal described.

Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2013-08-28 19:30:21 UTC
That is strange, why does it happen?

Comment 3 Miroslav Grepl 2013-08-29 09:33:17 UTC
It looks it also happens on Fedora. 

sh-4.2# setsebool -P aa=1
Failed to change boolean aa: No such file or directory
sh-4.2# setsebool -P ftp_home_dir 0
sh-4.2# setsebool -P aa=1
Failed to change boolean aa: Success

Need to try to do more debugging.

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2013-09-05 10:10:33 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product
Management has requested further review of this request by
Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat
Enterprise Linux release for currently deployed products.
This request is not yet committed for inclusion in a release.

Comment 8 Miroslav Grepl 2013-09-16 17:57:27 UTC
Fixed in policycoreutils-2.0.83-19.35.el6

Comment 9 Miroslav Grepl 2013-09-17 11:44:56 UTC
*** Bug 1008851 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Miroslav Grepl 2013-09-17 13:03:10 UTC
*** Bug 1008790 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 Miroslav Grepl 2013-09-17 13:35:21 UTC
# rpm -q policycoreutils
policycoreutils-2.0.83-19.35.el6.x86_64

# setsebool -P aa=1
Boolean aa is not defined

# getsebool ftp_home_dir
ftp_home_dir --> off
# setsebool -P ftp_home_dir 1
# getsebool ftp_home_dir
ftp_home_dir --> on

Comment 13 Miroslav Grepl 2013-09-17 15:25:04 UTC
(In reply to Miroslav Grepl from comment #12)
> # rpm -q policycoreutils
> policycoreutils-2.0.83-19.35.el6.x86_64
> 
> # setsebool -P aa=1
> Boolean aa is not defined
> 
> # getsebool ftp_home_dir
> ftp_home_dir --> off
> # setsebool -P ftp_home_dir 1
> # getsebool ftp_home_dir
> ftp_home_dir --> on

For QA.

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-21 11:08:19 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-2013-1608.html