Description of problem:
at first, my hibernate was not working at all. everytime it would just lock screen instead of hibernate, and i would receive this error when i unlock.

attempted to follow some instructions for using swap file for hibernation, but it would not work and was getting the error on log in.
then i read fedora doesn't use swap but zram, so i tried restoring /etc/systemd/sleep.conf to default settings (HibernateMode default contains platform, which i omitted based on what i was reading)
since then, i reconfigure the swap partition with swapoff/on and corrected the /etc/fstab.
everything is the same as before to the best of my knowledge, except uuid of swap partition changed and i ran "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg" and "dracut --regenerate-all --force" a few times

what i dont understand is that 1) now hibernate seems to work 2) this error shows up when it works and doesn't work
SELinux is preventing systemd-sleep from 'write' accesses on the directory /sys/firmware/efi/efivars.

*****  Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests   **************************

If you believe that systemd-sleep should be allowed write access on the efivars directory 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 'systemd-sleep' --raw | audit2allow -M my-systemdsleep
# semodule -X 300 -i my-systemdsleep.pp

Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:systemd_sleep_t:s0
Target Context                system_u:object_r:efivarfs_t:s0
Target Objects                /sys/firmware/efi/efivars [ dir ]
Source                        systemd-sleep
Source Path                   systemd-sleep
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           
Target RPM Packages           
SELinux Policy RPM            selinux-policy-targeted-38.28-1.fc39.noarch
Local Policy RPM              selinux-policy-targeted-38.28-1.fc39.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed) 6.5.4-300.fc39.x86_64 #1 SMP
                              PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Sep 19 13:09:45 UTC 2023
                              x86_64
Alert Count                   1
First Seen                    2023-09-23 01:29:41 EDT
Last Seen                     2023-09-23 01:29:41 EDT
Local ID                      df682841-740a-4ed0-85df-7fd2fa5d19b9

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1695446981.753:213): avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=3179 comm="systemd-sleep" name="/" dev="efivarfs" ino=17850 scontext=system_u:system_r:systemd_sleep_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:efivarfs_t:s0 tclass=dir permissive=0


Hash: systemd-sleep,systemd_sleep_t,efivarfs_t,dir,write

Version-Release number of selected component:
selinux-policy-targeted-38.28-1.fc39.noarch

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.17.11
reason:         SELinux is preventing systemd-sleep from 'write' accesses on the directory /sys/firmware/efi/efivars.
package:        selinux-policy-targeted-38.28-1.fc39.noarch
component:      selinux-policy
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
type:           libreport
kernel:         6.5.4-300.fc39.x86_64
component:      selinux-policy