This bug was initially created as a copy of Bug #1756005

Description of problem:

When trying to execute dracut as a service, we can see ldconfig fails due to not being able to read/write files from dracut's temporary directory used as its chroot.
This happens while "ldconfig -r /var/tmp/dracut..." is executed:

/usr/sbin/dracut:
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------
1628     if ! ldconfig -r "$initdir"; then
1629         if [[ $EUID = 0 ]]; then
1630             derror "ldconfig exited ungracefully"
1631         else
1632             derror "ldconfig might need uid=0 (root) for chroot()"
1633         fi
1634     fi
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------

It appears that the policy is missing many rules to allow this (and IMHO this should be allowed, it's perfectly legit to rebuild automatically the initramfs based on some custom trigger):

-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------
module my-ldconfig 1.0;

require {
	type initrc_tmp_t;
	type netutils_t;
	type ldconfig_t;
	class fifo_file write;
	class dir { add_name read remove_name write };
	class file { create map rename setattr };
}

#============= ldconfig_t ==============
allow ldconfig_t initrc_tmp_t:dir { add_name read remove_name write };
allow ldconfig_t initrc_tmp_t:fifo_file write;

#!!!! This avc can be allowed using the boolean 'domain_can_mmap_files'
allow ldconfig_t initrc_tmp_t:file map;
allow ldconfig_t initrc_tmp_t:file { create rename setattr };

#============= netutils_t ==============
allow netutils_t initrc_tmp_t:fifo_file write;
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------

Note that the "netutils_t" rule is needed for giving back the hostname to ldconfig:
well, not so sure, on RHEL7 it was "hostname_t", but now it seems it's arping which is called for that task.


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

selinux-policy-3.14.1-61.el8_0.2.noarch


How reproducible:

Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a service calling dracut

# cat > /etc/systemd/system/dracut.service << EOF
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c "dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)"
EOF

# systemctl daemon-reload

2. Execute the service

# systemctl start dracut


Actual results:

AVCs


Expected results:

No AVC