Description of problem: Yesterday I updated to the latest targeted policy, which caused the gam_server's context to be invalidated. As a result, I got 5224 events reporting the various denials, until I rebooted my computer. The browser was popping up a balloon for each and every event, even after I had opened the browser. This doesn't seem like it's the right strategy for handling events. Had setrouble acted more sanely, I would have been able to diagnose what was wrong without having to resort to rebooting the computer. My other attempt, stopping setroubleshoot's daemon, had the effect of disconnecting the browser and making it unable to view anything at all. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): setroubleshoot-2.0.8-2.fc9.noarch How reproducible: That kind of mass-denial doesn't occur often, but should be pretty easy to induce reliably. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do something that will generate denials at a very high rate (this should be easy to tune with a custom executable) 2. Watch the madness 3. Actual results: The browser has a lot of trouble keeping up, balloons are popping up repeatedly, even after I've opened the browser, etc. Expected results: setroubleshoot should calmly let me know something is wrong. Perhaps it could start with with the current behavior, but after the denial count starts to get large (where "large" might be 10 -- we're talking balloon popups here, after all) it switches to "something appears to be very wrong here"-like behavior (a single popup in red saying something to that effect, for example). Also, if I have the browser open, that is giving me feedback that the counts are increasing, so I don't really need the balloons anymore. The repeating balloons are annoying even for a low number of denials. Furthermore, I should still be able to look at the denials that have been processed already. After a while, the GUI stopped updating, and I couldn't tell what was wrong. Beyond that, I have no specific suggestions. High denial counts shouldn't happen, but when they do, it's important that the user can get to the bottom of what's wrong quickly. Additional info: Here's a summary of /var/log/messages: Jul 18 20:27:48 elminster yum: Updated: selinux-policy-3.3.1-78.fc9.noarch Jul 18 20:28:23 elminster kernel: security: invalidating context system_u:system_r:gamin_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 Jul 18 20:28:23 elminster kernel: security: invalidating context unconfined_u:system_r:gamin_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 Jul 18 20:28:23 elminster kernel: security: invalidating context system_u:system_r:gamin_t:s0 Jul 18 20:28:23 elminster kernel: SELinux: policy loaded with handle_unknown=allow Jul 18 20:28:23 elminster dbus: avc: received policyload notice (seqno=2) Jul 18 20:28:28 elminster yum: Updated: selinux-policy-targeted-3.3.1-78.fc9.noarch Jul 18 20:28:30 elminster audispd: queue is full - dropping event [repeat 192 times] Jul 18 20:28:31[-37] elminster setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing gam_server (unlabeled_t) "getattr" to inotify (inotifyfs_t). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l ccad94d1-5cdb-4661-8c07-fe81274e71c1 Jul 18 20:28:31[-37] elminster setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing gam_server (unlabeled_t) "read" to inotify (inotifyfs_t). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l cad8f871-05ce-42c9-b43f-5cf356f7ce68 [repeat 47 times] [repeat audispd/setroubleshoot messages 7330 times through 20:33:17] <shutdown/reboot>
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So this begs the question of whether or not the target name should be in the signature key, Now that we are moving to have autoreporting, I believe we should have this fixed, Remove the file from the key so we will see these as all the same AVC.
I have removed the targetname from the alert message for reporting to bugzilla.
Fixed in setroubleshoot-2.2.58-1.fc12 yum update setroubleshoot\* --enablerepo=updates-testing
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