From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko) Description of problem: As can be seen in the below messages a file handle for /proc/modules is inherited by child processes of firstboot (in this case ntpdate). The file handle should either be closed before process execution or should be marked close-on-exec. audit(1095950199.466:0): avc: denied { use } for pid=2841 exe=/usr/sbin/ntpdate path=/proc/modules dev=proc ino=-268435437 scontext=system_u:system_r:ntpd_ttcontext=system_u:system_r:firstboot_t tclass=fd audit(1095950199.488:0): avc: denied { use } for pid=2841 exe=/usr/sbin/ntpdate path=/proc/modules dev=proc ino=-268435437 scontext=system_u:system_r:ntpd_ttcontext=system_u:system_r:firstboot_t tclass=fd Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.3.25-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: boot with SE Linux strict policy and observe the avc messages. Additional info:
Created attachment 104556 [details] Fix FILE leak in kudzu Seems to be caused by a FILE leak in kudzu.
The file handle is labeled with domain firstboot_t. This means that a program running in the firstboot_t domain opened the file handle. kudzu runs in domain kudzu_t. Unless firstboot links in code from kudzu.c I don't think that the patch will entirely fix the problem. That's OK, it'll probably fix other problems so it's worth doing.
The whole chain (I think) is: firstboot /usr/share/firstboot/modules/soundcard_gui.py system-config-soundcard /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/kudzu.py /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_kudzumodule.so ... which indeed shares code with kudzu.
Fixed in CVS, will be in 1.1.89-1.
Erm, make that 1.1.91-1.