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Bug 618215

Summary: patch does not preserve context - resets to tmp_t
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Eduard Benes <ebenes>
Component: patchAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Eduard Benes <ebenes>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 6.0CC: dbaron, ebenes, gajownik, jorris, mkanat, mvadkert, nalin, pknirsch, sdsmall, syeghiay, twaugh, vchepkov
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Reopened
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: patch-2.6-6.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of: 229329 Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-11-10 21:19:50 UTC Type: ---
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Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2010-07-26 15:19:18 UTC 
*** Bug 616141 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Miroslav Vadkerti 2010-08-16 09:02:26 UTC 
Still fails with patch-2.6-5.el6. FAILS_QA, flipping back to assigned:

# rpm -q patch
patch-2.6-5.el6.x86_64

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:: [   LOG    ] :: Test
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:: [   PASS   ] :: Running 'echo example1 > /etc/example1'
:: [   PASS   ] :: Running 'echo example2 > /etc/example2'
:: [   PASS   ] :: File /etc/example1 should exist
:: [   PASS   ] :: File /etc/example2 should exist
-rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:etc_t:s0   /etc/example1
-rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:etc_t:s0   /etc/example2
:: [   PASS   ] :: Running 'ls -lZ /etc/example1 /etc/example2 | tee /tmp/before.log'
patching file /etc/example1
:: [   PASS   ] :: Running 'diff -u /etc/example1 /etc/example2 | patch /etc/example1'
-rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0 /etc/example1
-rw-r--r--. root root unconfined_u:object_r:etc_t:s0   /etc/example2
:: [   PASS   ] :: Running 'ls -lZ /etc/example1 /etc/example2 | tee /tmp/after.log'
:: [   FAIL   ] :: Files /tmp/before.log and /tmp/after.log should not differ
Comment 10 Tim Waugh 2010-08-16 16:59:52 UTC 
I could reproduce that.

Fixed in patch-2.6-6.el6.
Comment 11 Miroslav Vadkerti 2010-08-17 07:17:10 UTC 
VERIFIED as fixed in patch-2.6-6.el6

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:: [   LOG    ] :: Test
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:: [   PASS   ] :: Running 'echo example1 > /etc/example1'
:: [   PASS   ] :: Running 'echo example2 > /etc/example2'
:: [   PASS   ] :: File /etc/example1 should exist
:: [   PASS   ] :: File /etc/example2 should exist
:: [   PASS   ] :: Running 'ls -lZ /etc/example1 /etc/example2 | tee /tmp/before.log'
:: [   PASS   ] :: Running 'diff -u /etc/example1 /etc/example2 | patch /etc/example1'
:: [   PASS   ] :: Running 'ls -lZ /etc/example1 /etc/example2 | tee /tmp/after.log'
:: [   PASS   ] :: Files /tmp/before.log and /tmp/after.log should not differ
:: [   LOG    ] :: Duration: 1s
:: [   LOG    ] :: Assertions: 8 good, 0 bad
:: [   PASS   ] :: RESULT: Test

Please note that this bug will be moved to VERIFIED state when it gets to RHEL6 Snap 12.
Comment 13 Miroslav Vadkerti 2010-08-19 07:07:59 UTC 
Moving to verified per comment 11.
Comment 14 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2010-11-10 21:19:50 UTC 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.