Bug 1569724 - smartd cannot save state files
Summary: smartd cannot save state files
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy
Version: 28
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Lukas Vrabec
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-04-19 21:56 UTC by Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
Modified: 2018-05-26 20:44 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: selinux-policy-3.14.1-29.fc28
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2018-05-26 20:44:47 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer 2018-04-19 21:56:35 UTC
Description of problem:
If you start smartd with the -s option as specified in /etc/sysconfig/smartmontools:
Add -s /var/lib/smartmontools to enable state persistence

smartd will try to read/write in that directory.

Except it cannot:

type=AVC msg=audit(1524173728.395:119): avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=989 comm="smartd" name="lib" dev="dm-1" ino=222572 scontext=system_u:system_r:fsdaemon_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_lib_t:s0 tclass=dir permissive=0

This appears similar to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720631

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

selinux-policy-targeted-3.13.1-283.30.fc27.noarch
smartmontools-6.5-5.fc27.x86_64


How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enable -s /var/lib/smartmontools in /etc/sysconfig/smartmontools
2. restart smartd

Comment 1 Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer 2018-05-15 20:00:15 UTC
Problem is still present in F28.

SELinux is preventing smartd from write access on the directory /var/lib.

*****  Plugin catchall_labels (83.8 confidence) suggests   *******************

If you want to allow smartd to have write access on the lib directory
Then you need to change the label on /var/lib
Do
# semanage fcontext -a -t FILE_TYPE '/var/lib'
where FILE_TYPE is one of the following: device_t, fsdaemon_tmp_t, fsdaemon_var_lib_t, fsdaemon_var_run_t, tmp_t, var_run_t.
Then execute:
restorecon -v '/var/lib'


*****  Plugin catchall (17.1 confidence) suggests   **************************

If you believe that smartd should be allowed write access on the lib directory by default.
Then you should report this as a bug.
You can generate a local policy module to allow this access.
Do
allow this access for now by executing:
# ausearch -c 'smartd' --raw | audit2allow -M my-smartd
# semodule -X 300 -i my-smartd.pp

Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:fsdaemon_t:s0
Target Context                system_u:object_r:var_lib_t:s0
Target Objects                /var/lib [ dir ]
Source                        smartd
Source Path                   smartd
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          garbage
Source RPM Packages           
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    <Unknown>
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     garbage
Platform                      Linux garbage 4.16.8-300.fc28.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed
                              May 9 20:23:40 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   497
First Seen                    2018-05-08 02:19:59 CEST
Last Seen                     2018-05-15 21:56:10 CEST
Local ID                      10c0736a-58f2-4efd-b81c-943682f6c019

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1526414170.225:143): avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=1853 comm="smartd" name="lib" dev="dm-0" ino=135944 scontext=system_u:system_r:fsdaemon_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_lib_t:s0 tclass=dir permissive=0

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2018-05-24 14:36:40 UTC
selinux-policy-3.14.1-29.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-a74875b364

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2018-05-25 18:42:58 UTC
selinux-policy-3.14.1-29.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-a74875b364

Comment 4 Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer 2018-05-26 00:14:37 UTC
Well I don't know if anything about that case was changed but it works without the new package.

I double checked what smartd does and read the man page again: the path must have a final / or smartd will try to create files under /var/lib/ if you give /var/lib/smartmontools as a parameter...

Please accept my apologies about that.

Either revert the changes you made for smartd or just resolve this bug.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2018-05-26 20:44:47 UTC
selinux-policy-3.14.1-29.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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