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Bug 1584335 - rpm has an inconsistent mode for /etc/selinux/targeted/active/policy.linked
Summary: rpm has an inconsistent mode for /etc/selinux/targeted/active/policy.linked
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: selinux-policy
Version: 7.6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Lukas Vrabec
QA Contact: Milos Malik
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Blocks: 1653106
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-05-30 17:37 UTC by Andrew Schorr
Modified: 2022-03-13 15:03 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-08-06 12:52:25 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2019:2127 0 None None None 2019-08-06 12:52:46 UTC

Description Andrew Schorr 2018-05-30 17:37:44 UTC 
Description of problem: rpm --verify -q selinux-policy-targeted complains about the mode on /etc/selinux/targeted/active/policy.linked


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-targeted-3.13.1-192.el7_5.3.noarch

How reproducible:
rpm --verify -q selinux-policy-targeted

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm --verify -q selinux-policy-targeted
2.
3.

Actual results:
.M.......  g /etc/selinux/targeted/active/policy.linked

Expected results:
No complaint.

Additional info:
sh-4.2# rpm --verify -q selinux-policy-targeted
.M.......  g /etc/selinux/targeted/active/policy.linked
sh-4.2# rpm -qlv selinux-policy-targeted | grep /etc/selinux/targeted/active/policy.linked
-rw-------    1 root    root                  3750251 May  9 11:50 /etc/selinux/targeted/active/policy.linked
sh-4.2# ls -l /etc/selinux/targeted/active/policy.linked
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3726396 May 19 16:59 /etc/selinux/targeted/active/policy.linked

So the mode configured in the rpm does not match reality. Should group and other have read permission?
Comment 3 Vit Mojzis 2018-06-26 13:55:52 UTC 
Thank you for reporting the issue. Could you please list versions of the following packages please?
libsepol 
libselinux
libsemanage
policycoreutils

It seems that your system contains outdated version of libsemanage, which generates policy.linked with different file mode. Could you please verify that updating libsemanage and selinux-policy-targeted to the latest versions (possibly followed by policy rebuild "# semodule -B") fixes the issue?

If it does, we need to update selinux-policy-targeted rpm to require corresponding version of libsemanage.
Comment 4 Andrew Schorr 2018-06-26 17:26:32 UTC 
sh-4.2# rpm --verify -q selinux-policy-targeted
.M.......  g /etc/selinux/targeted/active/policy.linked
sh-4.2# rpm -q libsepol libselinux libsemanage policycoreutils selinux-policy-targeted
libsepol-2.5-8.1.el7.x86_64
libselinux-2.5-12.el7.x86_64
libsemanage-2.5-11.el7.x86_64
policycoreutils-2.5-22.el7.x86_64
selinux-policy-targeted-3.13.1-192.el7_5.3.noarch

As far as I can tell, those are all current versions. Are there newer ones?

sh-4.2# semodule -B
sh-4.2# rpm --verify -q selinux-policy-targeted
.M.......  g /etc/selinux/targeted/active/policy.linked
Comment 5 Andrew Schorr 2018-12-06 16:51:06 UTC 
FYI, this is still broken in 7.6 in selinux-policy-targeted-3.13.1-229.el7_6.6.noarch

sh-4.2# rpm --verify -q selinux-policy-targeted
.M.......  g /etc/selinux/targeted/active/policy.linked
sh-4.2# rpm  -q selinux-policy-targeted
selinux-policy-targeted-3.13.1-229.el7_6.6.noarch
sh-4.2# rpm -qlv selinux-policy-targeted | grep policy.linked
-rw-------    1 root    root                  3881011 Nov 28 16:20 /etc/selinux/targeted/active/policy.linked
sh-4.2# ls -ld /etc/selinux/targeted/active/policy.linked
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3857048 Dec  5 19:39 /etc/selinux/targeted/active/policy.linked

Regards,
Andy
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:52:25 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-2019:2127
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