Bug 836080 - selinux-policy creates an alert on totem-plugin-viewer writing to home directory
Summary: selinux-policy creates an alert on totem-plugin-viewer writing to home directory
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy
Version: 17
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Miroslav Grepl
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 836079 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-06-28 04:50 UTC by Frank Jacobberger
Modified: 2012-12-31 01:21 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-12-31 01:21:26 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
SELinux alert detail (3.87 KB, text/html)
2012-06-28 04:52 UTC, Frank Jacobberger
no flags Details
Reoccurence of Selinux-policy alert on totem-plugin-viewer (3.53 KB, text/html)
2012-06-28 13:55 UTC, Frank Jacobberger
no flags Details
restorecon fix attempt per suggestion by mgrepl (6.21 KB, text/html)
2012-06-28 13:58 UTC, Frank Jacobberger
no flags Details

Description Frank Jacobberger 2012-06-28 04:50:20 UTC
Description of problem:

SELinux alerts on writing to:
Target Objects /home/fxj/.nv/GLCache/a147bc5d819e1646d5baf3c8f0a0
17e4/8a42b54c39a9c127/5e6ad28286c1ed67.toc [ file

Perhaps some read/write issue on /home/fxj/.nv/GLCache. Nvidia is writing something to cache.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

selinux-policy noarch 3.10.0-132.fc17

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Arbitrary alerts from SELinux - see attachment
2. Error occurs randomly serveral times daily
3. 
  
Actual results:SELinux reports that totem-plugin-viewer is trying to write to my home directory fxj

Expected results:No SELinux error


Additional info:

Comment 1 Frank Jacobberger 2012-06-28 04:52:40 UTC
Created attachment 594907 [details]
SELinux alert detail

Comment 2 Miroslav Grepl 2012-06-28 09:23:04 UTC
Try to execute

# restorecon -R -v /home/fxj/.nv

should fix it.

Comment 3 Miroslav Grepl 2012-06-28 09:23:41 UTC
*** Bug 836079 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Frank Jacobberger 2012-06-28 13:55:39 UTC
Created attachment 595026 [details]
Reoccurence of Selinux-policy alert on totem-plugin-viewer

I ran the suggested restorecon -R -v /home/fxj/.nv before getting this second error.

Comment 5 Frank Jacobberger 2012-06-28 13:58:01 UTC
Created attachment 595027 [details]
restorecon fix attempt per suggestion by mgrepl

Result of first attempt fix using the suggested:

# restorecon -R -v /home/fxj/.nv

by mgrepl

Comment 6 Frank Jacobberger 2012-06-29 04:13:53 UTC
Take a look at closed bug 823251

Comment 7 Miroslav Grepl 2012-06-29 06:09:38 UTC
PLease update to the latest policy

# yum update selinux-policy-targeted --enablerepo=updates-testing

Comment 8 Frank Jacobberger 2012-06-29 13:01:42 UTC
Applied selinux-policy.noarch 0:3.10.0-134.fc17.

See what happens.


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