Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 241143
SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/lvm (lvm_t) "write" to .cache (lvm_etc_t)
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:05 EST
Description of problem: When try to run the system-config-lvm, get the message from setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/lvm (lvm_t) "write" to .cache (lvm_etc_t) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): selinux-policy-targeted-2.4.6-62.fc6 system-config-lvm-1.0.18-1.2.FC6 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: Source Context: system_u:system_r:lvm_t:s0 Target Context: system_u:object_r:lvm_etc_t:s0 Target Objects: .cache [ file ] Affected RPM Packages: Policy RPM: selinux-policy-2.4.6-62.fc6 Selinux Enabled: True Policy Type: targeted MLS Enabled: True Enforcing Mode: Enforcing Plugin Name: plugins.catchall_file Host Name: openfree.org Platform: Linux openfree.org 2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 #1 SMP Fri Apr 2 7 19:48:40 EDT 2007 i686 i686 Alert Count: 43 Line Numbers: Raw Audit Messages: avc: denied { write } for comm="lvm" dev=dm-0 egid=0 euid=0 exe="/usr/sbin/lvm" exi t=-13 fsgid=0 fsuid=0 gid=0 items=0 name=".cache" pid=22901 scontext=system_u:syste m_r:lvm_t:s0 sgid=0 subj=system_u:system_r:lvm_t:s0 suid=0 tclass=file tcontext=sys tem_u:object_r:lvm_etc_t:s0 tty=pts2 uid=0
restorecon /etc/lvm/.cache There is not much we can do to fix this in FC6. The problem is the file gets labeled incorrectly when you run an lvm type command that is not confined. In FC7 this file has been moved to /etc/lvm/cache and the file context is maintained. You can use restorecond and add /etc/lvm/.cache to its config file to maintain the context.