Note: This bug is displayed in read-only format because the product is no longer active in Red Hat Bugzilla.
RHEL Engineering is moving the tracking of its product development work on RHEL 6 through RHEL 9 to Red Hat Jira (issues.redhat.com). If you're a Red Hat customer, please continue to file support cases via the Red Hat customer portal. If you're not, please head to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira and file new tickets here. Individual Bugzilla bugs in the statuses "NEW", "ASSIGNED", and "POST" are being migrated throughout September 2023. Bugs of Red Hat partners with an assigned Engineering Partner Manager (EPM) are migrated in late September as per pre-agreed dates. Bugs against components "kernel", "kernel-rt", and "kpatch" are only migrated if still in "NEW" or "ASSIGNED". If you cannot log in to RH Jira, please consult article #7032570. That failing, please send an e-mail to the RH Jira admins at rh-issues@redhat.com to troubleshoot your issue as a user management inquiry. The email creates a ServiceNow ticket with Red Hat. Individual Bugzilla bugs that are migrated will be moved to status "CLOSED", resolution "MIGRATED", and set with "MigratedToJIRA" in "Keywords". The link to the successor Jira issue will be found under "Links", have a little "two-footprint" icon next to it, and direct you to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira (issue links are of type "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-XXXX", where "X" is a digit). This same link will be available in a blue banner at the top of the page informing you that that bug has been migrated.

Bug 1439442

Summary: NFS crossmnt AVC denied for comm="rpc.mountd" name="/" dev="configfs" ino=7990 scontext=system_u:system_r:nfsd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:configfs_t:s0 tclass=dir
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Yongcheng Yang <yoyang>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Lukas Vrabec <lvrabec>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Milos Malik <mmalik>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.4CC: lvrabec, mgrepl, mmalik, plautrba, pvrabec, ssekidde, swhiteho, xzhou
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Reproducer
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: selinux-policy-3.13.1-176.el7 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2018-04-10 12:29:42 UTC Type: Bug
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Yongcheng Yang 2017-04-06 02:30:56 UTC
Description of problem:
There is an "avc denied" log during tests of NFS crossmnt (details please find from manpage exports(5)) with root "/". 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL-7.3

How reproducible:
100% easily

Steps to Reproduce:
1. echo '/ *(ro,crossmnt,nohide,no_root_squash)' > /etc/exports
2. systemctl restart nfs
3. Mount the "/" to any mount point
4. Read contents of $mountpoint/boot/

Actual results:
# echo '/ *(ro,crossmnt,nohide,no_root_squash)' >/etc/exports
# systemctl restart nfs
# mount localhost:/ /mnt/mnt_test/
# cat /var/log/audit/audit.log | grep denied
# ls /mnt/mnt_test/boot/ &>/dev/null
# cat /var/log/audit/audit.log | grep denied
type=AVC msg=audit(1491444765.616:197): avc:  denied  { search } for  pid=30483 comm="rpc.mountd" name="/" dev="configfs" ino=7560 scontext=system_u:system_r:nfsd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:configfs_t:s0 tclass=dir
# 

Expected results:
No AVC failure.

Additional info:
Rhel6 doesn't have this warning.

Comment 2 Milos Malik 2017-04-06 10:20:32 UTC
# rpm -qa selinux-policy\*
selinux-policy-targeted-3.13.1-132.el7.noarch
selinux-policy-3.13.1-132.el7.noarch
#

SELinux denials caught in enforcing mode:
----
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(04/06/2017 06:15:15.368:282) : arch=x86_64 syscall=lstat success=no exit=EACCES(Permission denied) a0=0x55f139a83ab0 a1=0x7fffe3dda3a0 a2=0x7fffe3dda3a0 a3=0x0 items=0 ppid=1 pid=1309 auid=unset uid=root gid=root euid=root suid=root fsuid=root egid=root sgid=root fsgid=root tty=(none) ses=unset comm=rpc.mountd exe=/usr/sbin/rpc.mountd subj=system_u:system_r:nfsd_t:s0 key=(null) 
type=AVC msg=audit(04/06/2017 06:15:15.368:282) : avc:  denied  { search } for  pid=1309 comm=rpc.mountd name=/ dev="configfs" ino=7675 scontext=system_u:system_r:nfsd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:configfs_t:s0 tclass=dir 
----

SELinux denials caught in permissive mode:
----
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(04/06/2017 06:17:23.320:303) : arch=x86_64 syscall=lstat success=yes exit=0 a0=0x564d6a1f27d0 a1=0x7ffdb4d18900 a2=0x7ffdb4d18900 a3=0x0 items=0 ppid=1 pid=1538 auid=unset uid=root gid=root euid=root suid=root fsuid=root egid=root sgid=root fsgid=root tty=(none) ses=unset comm=rpc.mountd exe=/usr/sbin/rpc.mountd subj=system_u:system_r:nfsd_t:s0 key=(null) 
type=AVC msg=audit(04/06/2017 06:17:23.320:303) : avc:  denied  { search } for  pid=1538 comm=rpc.mountd name=/ dev="configfs" ino=7675 scontext=system_u:system_r:nfsd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:configfs_t:s0 tclass=dir 
----

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 12:29:42 UTC
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-2018:0763