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Bug 1386358

Summary:	race condition between multiple oscap processes
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Marek Haicman <mhaicman>
Component:	openscap	Assignee:	Jan Černý <jcerny>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	7.4	CC:	matyc, mgrepl, mhaicman, mmarhefk, openscap-maint
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Clone Of:	1368896	Environment:
Last Closed:	2018-11-07 14:15:01 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	1368896
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Description Marek Haicman 2016-10-18 18:06:22 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1368896 +++

Description of problem:
Tracking bug for race condition issue in oscap tool.
Please see original bug for description of the issue.




Discussion picked from the original bug:

Brent Baude and I debugged and discussed this issue today. First we suspected it was in openscap-daemon but openscap-daemon runs the right commands with the right paths.

Turns out it is some sort of a race condition between multiple oscap processes being spawned. Using "--jobs 1" or "-j1" when running oscapd-evaluate fixes these issues. My guess is that oscap processes talk to probes that don't belong to them and get the wrong results.

Comment 2 Matus Marhefka 2018-11-07 14:15:01 UTC

This was worked around for openscap container and there are no other reports for this issue. If the issue is encountered in the future feel free to open a new bug.