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Bug 2137965 - restorecon `-i` flag has no effect when the parent dir is also missing
Summary: restorecon `-i` flag has no effect when the parent dir is also missing
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libselinux
Version: 8.6
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Vit Mojzis
QA Contact: Amith
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 2152116
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-10-26 18:22 UTC by lingwangneuraleng
Modified: 2023-05-16 11:18 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libselinux-2.9-8.el8
Doc Type: No Doc Update
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
: 2152116 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2023-05-16 09:10:48 UTC
Type: Bug
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-137673 0 None None None 2022-10-26 18:23:24 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2023:3023 0 None None None 2023-05-16 09:10:52 UTC

Description lingwangneuraleng 2022-10-26 18:22:25 UTC
Description of problem:
The `-i` can ignore missing files if the parent dirs exist. However, if the parent dir does not exist it still report `No such file or direectory`


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

rpm -qf /sbin/restorecon
policycoreutils-2.9-19.el8.x86_64


How reproducible:

```
$ restorecon -i -v -R /var/log/missingfile; echo $?
0
$ restorecon -i -v -R /var/log/missingdir/missingfile; echo $?
255
restorecon: SELinux: Could not get canonical path for /var/log/missingdir/missingfile restorecon: No such file or directory.
```

Actual results:
exit with 255

Expected results:
should just be fine exit with 0

Additional info:

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-16 09:10:48 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 (libselinux bug fix and enhancement update), 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-2023:3023


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