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Created attachment 1028930 [details] Log of AVCs Description of problem: A number of AVCs are being reported for hostapd in F22 which prevent it starting. The log is attached. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): selinux-policy-targeted-3.13.1-126.fc22.noarch hostapd-2.3-4.fc22.i686
I have now found another AVC which was hiding behind a dontaudit rule: time->Mon Jun 29 10:39:34 2015 type=PROCTITLE msg=audit(1435570774.085:16533): proctitle=2F7573722F7362696E2F686F7374617064002F6574632F686F73746170642F686F73746170642E636F6E66002D50002F72756E2F686F73746170642E706964002D42 type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1435570774.085:16533): arch=40000003 syscall=102 success=yes exit=36 a0=10 a1=bf93c910 a2=b777d000 a3=90517e8 items=0 ppid=1 pid=7241 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="hostapd" exe="/usr/sbin/hostapd" subj=system_u:system_r:hostapd_t:s0 key=(null) type=AVC msg=audit(1435570774.085:16533): avc: denied { search } for pid=7241 comm="hostapd" name="phy7" dev="debugfs" ino=5626659 scontext=system_u:system_r:hostapd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:debugfs_t:s0 tclass=dir permissive=1 This one is particularly nasty because, due to a kernel bug, once triggered there is an invalid pointer in the kernel which may later be dereferenced causing an oops.
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