Description of problem: I booted a Fedora 38 KDE Plasma installation with plymouth.debug=stream:/dev/null added to the 6.2.9 kernel command line as suggested by Hans de Goede at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2183743 to troubleshoot a problem with the boot splash screen showing a theme with three dots instead of the selected Spinner theme. plymouthd was denied reading cmdline repeatedly on each of a few boots with plymouth.debug=stream:/dev/null on the kernel command line. type=AVC msg=audit(1680373014.556:258): avc: denied { read } for pid=382 comm="plymouthd" name="stat" dev="proc" ino=20331 scontext=system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 tclass=file permissive=0 The denials didn't happen without that added to the kernel command line. I'm using the targeted policy from selinux-policy-38.9-1.fc38.noarch in enforcing mode. Hans mentioned denials like this at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1945585#c2 SELinux is preventing plymouthd from 'read' accesses on the file stat. ***** Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests ************************** If you believe that plymouthd should be allowed read access on the stat file by default. Then you should report this as a bug. You can generate a local policy module to allow this access. Do allow this access for now by executing: # ausearch -c 'plymouthd' --raw | audit2allow -M my-plymouthd # semodule -X 300 -i my-plymouthd.pp Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0 Target Context system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 Target Objects stat [ file ] Source plymouthd Source Path plymouthd Port <Unknown> Host (removed) Source RPM Packages Target RPM Packages SELinux Policy RPM selinux-policy-targeted-38.9-1.fc38.noarch Local Policy RPM selinux-policy-targeted-38.9-1.fc38.noarch Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Host Name (removed) Platform Linux (removed) 6.2.9-300.fc38.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Mar 30 22:32:58 UTC 2023 x86_64 Alert Count 34 First Seen 2023-04-01 14:16:52 EDT Last Seen 2023-04-01 14:16:54 EDT Local ID 12533528-3d83-4080-af55-597e0c2c9a22 Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1680373014.556:258): avc: denied { read } for pid=382 comm="plymouthd" name="stat" dev="proc" ino=20331 scontext=system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 tclass=file permissive=0 Hash: plymouthd,kernel_t,init_t,file,read Version-Release number of selected component: selinux-policy-targeted-38.9-1.fc38.noarch Additional info: reporter: libreport-2.17.9 hashmarkername: setroubleshoot type: libreport kernel: 6.2.9-300.fc38.x86_64 component: selinux-policy package: selinux-policy-targeted-38.9-1.fc38.noarch reason: SELinux is preventing plymouthd from 'read' accesses on the file stat. component: selinux-policy
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FEDORA-2023-a19eb5132c has been submitted as an update to Fedora 38. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-a19eb5132c
FEDORA-2023-a19eb5132c has been pushed to the Fedora 38 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2023-a19eb5132c` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-a19eb5132c See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2023-a19eb5132c has been pushed to the Fedora 38 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.