Bug 842195 - yum snapshots security context problem in btrfs /home
Summary: yum snapshots security context problem in btrfs /home
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 17
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eric Paris
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-07-23 02:14 UTC by A. Mani
Modified: 2013-08-01 16:25 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-08-01 16:25:47 UTC
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Description A. Mani 2012-07-23 02:14:05 UTC
Description of problem:
After uninstalling yum snapshots in encrypted btrfs /home,
the directories in /home are not removable by superuser or user.
chown has no effect due to context: system_u:object_r: s0

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


How reproducible:
0 selinux enforcing
1. install F17 with encrypted btrfs /home with 10 GB data (say)
2. keep on updating over a few days.
3. Many snapshots occupying considerable space would result.
4. The contents may be deletable by superuser, but not the directories
5. Uninstall the yum snapshot plugin
6. system_u:object_r: s0






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Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2012-07-23 14:47:51 UTC
Have you tried to run restorecon -R -v /home?  Can you try in permissive mode if this does not work.  This looks like you have somehow gotten a bad label into brtfs, this could be a bug in btrfs also.

Comment 2 A. Mani 2012-07-23 16:09:18 UTC
Yes, that does not change the context and even if I do it from outside (Scientific Linux-6.2). 

ls -idZ 
drwxr-xr-x. <username> 1000 system_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0 /media/abc/yum_20120630071356

Comment 3 Daniel Walsh 2012-07-23 17:30:40 UTC
I have no idea how those labels got onto the file system.  Very strange.

Comment 4 Need Real Name 2012-07-25 21:40:56 UTC
just checking: you've tried deleting using

btrfs su del /media/abc/yum_20120630071356

..?

Comment 5 A. Mani 2012-07-27 02:19:57 UTC
Yes, I  tried btrfs subvolume delete.
Btw, this partition was from F16 and was created much earlier. So the bug should be duplicated first.

Comment 6 Daniel Walsh 2012-07-31 15:48:52 UTC
Seems like a kernel issue to me.

Comment 7 Dave Jones 2013-05-15 18:55:12 UTC
is this still a problem in current release ?

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