Bug 593950 - allow_mount_anyfile false positives (with mount.crypt)
Summary: allow_mount_anyfile false positives (with mount.crypt)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: setroubleshoot-plugins
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Daniel Walsh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-05-20 06:22 UTC by Tomáš Trnka
Modified: 2011-06-05 20:22 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-06-05 20:22:07 UTC
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Description Tomáš Trnka 2010-05-20 06:22:56 UTC
Description of problem:
The allow_mount_anyfile SETroubleshoot plugin currently triggers on any AVC with the source type of mount_t (and file or dir tclass). That means each and every mount.crypt AVC (file reads, writes etc...) is incorrectly flagged as being an allow_mount_anyfile problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
setroubleshoot-plugins-2.1.50-1.fc13.noarch

Steps to Reproduce:
Trigger an AVC with anything in mount_t and see.
  
Actual results:
The AVC is mistaken for an allow_mount_anyfile, recommending the user to set the respective boolean, which doesn't help at all.

Expected results:
The AVC is analyzed properly (i.e. by the catchall plugin).

Additional info:
I don't know whether this isn't by design, since there's this "mounton" plugin, too, that seems do do the job properly (i.e. trigger only on a file mounton AVC). Either way it's annoying (and perhaps misleading lots of user to set a boolean they don't need ).

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2010-05-21 14:46:53 UTC
Agree,  I am removing this plugin altogether.  

The catchall_boolean will report the correct thing if this boolean being turned on would solve the problem.

Fixed in setroubleshoot-plugins-2.1.52-1.fc13

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2011-06-02 13:48:44 UTC
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Comment 3 Tomáš Trnka 2011-06-05 20:22:07 UTC
This was really fixed in setroubleshoot-plugins-2.1.52-1.fc13


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