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Bug 1637416

Summary: RHVH 4.2.7: AVC denied errors (getattr) in audit.log after register to engine
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: cshao <cshao>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Lukas Vrabec <lvrabec>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Milos Malik <mmalik>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 7.6CC: bugs, cshao, huzhao, lvrabec, mmalik, msekleta, omosnace, plautrba, qiyuan, ralston, rmetrich, salmy, sbonazzo, ssekidde, toneata, vmojzis, weiwang, yaniwang, ycui, yturgema, zpytela
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Regression, ZStream
Target Release: 7.6   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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: 1645271 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-08-06 12:52:32 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1645271, 1653106    
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Description cshao 2018-10-09 08:53:43 UTC
Created attachment 1491997 [details]
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Description of problem:
After register to engine, there are AVC denied errors (getattr) in audit.log.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHVH-4.2-20181004.3-RHVH-x86_64-dvd1.iso
imgbased-1.0.25-1.el7ev.noarch
selinux-policy-3.13.1-229.el7.noarch

How reproducible:
80%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. RHVH-4.2-20181004.3-RHVH-x86_64-dvd1.iso installed successful. selinux in enforcing mode as default.
2. Register RHVH to RHVM.
3. Login to RHVH.

# grep "avc:  denied" /var/log/audit/audit.log
type=AVC msg=audit(1539074401.555:1207): avc:  denied  { getattr } for  pid=29850 comm="sadc" path="/var/log/audit" dev="dm-6" ino=2 scontext=system_u:system_r:sysstat_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:auditd_log_t:s0 tclass=dir permissive=0


Actual results:
AVC denied error msgs in audit.log

Expected results:
No avc denied errors in audit.log.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Yuval Turgeman 2018-10-11 13:52:08 UTC
It looks like a platform bug - does this happen on RHEL-H as well ?

Comment 2 cshao 2018-10-12 09:07:53 UTC
(In reply to Yuval Turgeman from comment #1)
> It looks like a platform bug - does this happen on RHEL-H as well ?

Yes, but there are a few differences on RHEL-H.

# grep "avc:  denied" /var/log/audit/audit.log
type=AVC msg=audit(1539331410.911:1741): avc:  denied  { sendto } for  pid=1565 comm="chronyd" path="/run/chrony/chronyc.20590.sock" scontext=system_u:system_r:chronyd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:virtd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=unix_dgram_socket

Comment 4 Yuval Turgeman 2018-10-14 17:46:31 UTC
Ok I've just reproduced this on a RHEL system - it is indeed a platform bug, to reproduce this, you need to install the operating system with /var/log/audit mounted on a separate partition, then you will start seeing those denials.  Is this a known issue ?

Comment 20 cshao 2018-11-14 07:10:34 UTC
Still met this issue with RHVH 4.2.7 async build

Comment 22 James Ralston 2018-11-14 18:18:40 UTC
If /var/log/audit is a separate filesystem, simply installing the sysstat package will also show the problem. From BZ#1649077:

$ ausearch -m avc -ts today | audit2allow 

#============= sysstat_t ==============

allow sysstat_t auditd_log_t:dir getattr;

Note that the RHEL7 STIG requires /var/log/audit to be a separate filesystem:

https://stigviewer.com/stig/red_hat_enterprise_linux_7/2017-12-14/finding/V-72063

Therefore, all sites that must run STIG-compliant RHEL7 hosts are going to be bitten by this.

At least for now, we're only seeing this for sysstat_t, so we've rolled another tunable into our local policy to permit us to work around the issue:

## <desc>
##  <p>
##    Work around auditd_log_t denials (BZ#1637416).
##  </p>
## </desc>

gen_tunable(local_custom_auditd_log_getattr, true)

gen_require(`
    type auditd_log_t;
    type sysstat_t;
    class dir { getattr };
')

tunable_policy(`local_custom_auditd_log_getattr',`
    allow sysstat_t auditd_log_t:dir getattr;
')

Comment 27 Zdenek Pytela 2019-03-06 17:35:12 UTC
*** Bug 1649077 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 30 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:52:32 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