Bug 181718 - klogd running wild after enabling selinux targeted policy
Summary: klogd running wild after enabling selinux targeted policy
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy-targeted
Version: 4
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Daniel Walsh
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-02-15 23:54 UTC by roebel
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-03-21 01:42:23 UTC
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Description roebel 2006-02-15 23:54:25 UTC
Hi  
  
Description of problem:   
   
I upgraded from FC3 and first I did disable selinux. Some days later I enabled  
selinux with policy targeted and selected relabel files. Things  
went mostly smooth. Howeverm after some time I recognized that the klogd did   
occupy the cpu completely. I did not see any message though.  
So I wondered about selinux and investigated the selinux config booleans.  
I found that syslogd was set to be not restricted but klogd not.  
After disabling the klogd restrictions and restarting klogd  
I've got 1000's of messages like  
  
Feb 16 00:36:59 sam kernel: audit(1140046610.261:215371275): avc:  denied    
{ write } for  pid=8979 comm=   
"klogd" name="log" dev=tmpfs ino=17270 scontext=root:system_r:klogd_t   
tcontext=root:object_r:device_t tc   
lass=sock_file   
  
in my /var/log/messages file  
  
I suppose the klogd should by default have the same selinux exception  
as the syslogd.  
  
  
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):   
 
libselinux-devel-1.23.11-1.1 
libselinux-1.23.11-1.1 
selinux-policy-targeted-1.27.1-2.18

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2006-02-16 15:14:10 UTC
This looks like /dev/log was created with the wrong context.  Are you completly
up to date with all packages especially udev?  

Your devlog should look like this.

ls -lZ /dev/log 
rw-rw-rw-  root     root     system_u:object_r:devlog_t       /dev/log


Comment 2 roebel 2006-02-17 00:22:33 UTC
 
ls -lZ /dev/log  
srw-rw-rw-  root     root     system_u:object_r:device_t       /dev/log  
  
I switched to the setting you proposed  
 
 chcon -t devlog_t  /dev/log 
 
and it seems to be ok now. 
I did update from FC3 to FC4 and there were a number of things broken. 
Especially the glibc package would remain FC3 because FC3  
had a more recent version. I had some trouble to force a downgrade. 
Quite annoying! I wonder what else ? 
 
Thanks for the tip anyway. 
 
 


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