Bug 120886 - SELinux causes loading X to fail
Summary: SELinux causes loading X to fail
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: policy
Version: rawhide
Hardware: powerpc
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Walsh
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-04-14 20:44 UTC by W. Michael Petullo
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-04-15 15:34:31 UTC
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New configuration that works with PowerPC and X (6.38 KB, text/plain)
2004-04-14 20:48 UTC, W. Michael Petullo
no flags Details

Description W. Michael Petullo 2004-04-14 20:44:33 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.6)
Gecko/20040312 Epiphany/1.1.12

Description of problem:
On my PowerPC-based system, x.org's server wishes to access
/proc/sys/dev (probably for mac_hid/mouse emulation) and
/proc/bus/pci.  When I set SELinux to enforce, these operations are
blocked and X does not start.
                                                                     
          
Here are the relavent logs:
                                                                     
          
avc:  denied  { search } for  pid=1504 exe=/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86
name=dev dev=ino=5303 scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_xserver_t
tcontext=system_u:object_r:sysctl_dev_t tclass=dir
                                                                     
          
avc:  denied  { getattr } for  pid=1504 exe=/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86
path=/proc/bus/pci dev= ino=5458
scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_xserver_t
tcontext=system_u:object_r:proc_t tclass=dir

Perhaps x86's X server not touch these directories?  I assume this
policy works on x86 because I haven't seen any mention of this on the
fedora-dev or -test mailing lists.
                                                                     
          
Adding the following to xserver_macros.te gets X to load on PowerPC:
                                                                     
          
# Access /proc/bus/pci
allow $1_xserver_t proc_t:dir { getattr read };
                                                                     
          
However, I don't know if this is the correct way to do this.  I'm not
even sure exactly why X is trying to read from /proc/bus/pci.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
policy-sources-1.10.2-4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Turn on SELinux enforcing on a PowerPC-based system and try to start X.
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 W. Michael Petullo 2004-04-14 20:48:28 UTC
Created attachment 99429 [details]
New configuration that works with PowerPC and X

Russell Coker sent me this and it seems to work fine.  Note that the string
"XFree86" is in it (only in a comment, though).  This should be replaced with
Xorg.

Comment 2 keith adamson 2004-04-14 21:08:57 UTC
New packages:

libselinux-1.11-3.i386.rpm
libselinux-devel-1.11-3.i386.rpm
policy-1.11.2-3.noarch.rpm
policy-sources-1.11.2-3.noarch.rpm

from:

ftp://people.redhat.com/dwalsh/SELinux/Fedora

Fixes for me.

Comment 3 keith adamson 2004-04-14 21:35:15 UTC
sorry about the noise ... not using PowerPC


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