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Description of problem:
Consider the following unit file,

[Service]
User=tester
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c "touch /home/tester/foo"
RootDirectory=/opt/chroot/
ProtectHome=true

It declares ProtectHome=true and that should make /home read-only for the service. However if we run the service on current RHEL-7.3, it exists successfully and is able to create empty file foo. This is a bug, since /home shouldn't be writable. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-219-30.el7_3.6.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. write above unit file to /etc/systemd/system/test.service
2. create user named tester - useradd tester
3. reload systemd - systemctl daemon-reload
4. bind mount / to /opt/chroot - mkdir -p /opt/chroot && mount --bind / /opt/chroot
5. start the service - systemctl start test.service
6. get status of the service

Actual results:
Service exists successfully, file /opt/chroot/home/tester/foo exists

Expected results:
Service fails, file is not present

Additional info:
upstream fix,

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/ee818b89f4890b3a00e93772249fce810f60811e

https://github.com/lnykryn/systemd-rhel/pull/94

fix merged to upstream staging branch ->
-> post

fix merged to upstream staging branch ->
https://github.com/lnykryn/systemd-rhel/commit/2b4894764e9e92ae9004524ed466b4bdf94b2a34
https://github.com/lnykryn/systemd-rhel/commit/ccf46ebc548054f876a418fc2e949a05a74a9c2a
-> post

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.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:2297