Bug 886619 - Passenger prespawn does not work
Summary: Passenger prespawn does not work
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: selinux-policy
Version: 6.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Miroslav Grepl
QA Contact: Milos Malik
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Blocks: 870392 895654
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-12-12 17:01 UTC by Brenton Leanhardt
Modified: 2013-02-21 08:33 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: selinux-policy-3.7.19-188.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-02-21 08:33:13 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2013:0314 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE selinux-policy bug fix and enhancement update 2013-02-20 20:35:01 UTC

Description Brenton Leanhardt 2012-12-12 17:01:34 UTC
Description of problem:
When launching a web application with mod passenger on RHEL 6.3 the following error can be seen in the Apache logs:

Cannot execute '/usr/share/rubygems/gems/passenger-3.0.17/helper-scripts/prespawn http://127.0.0.1:8080/': Permission denied (13)

I believe this is because the prespawn script has the following context:
system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0

It should probably be system_u:object_r:passenger_exec_t,s0

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

selinux-policy-3.7.19-155.el6_3.8.noarch
selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-155.el6_3.8.noarch

I have also tested with 3.7.19-187 and see the same error.

Additional info:
The does not prevent the application from loading, only from prespawning.  This means that we have to wait for a request to come in before the application will load.

Comment 2 Miroslav Grepl 2012-12-13 09:48:33 UTC
So if you execute

# chcon -t passenger_exec_t /usr/share/rubygems/gems/passenger-3.0.17/helper-scripts/prespawn

does it work then?

Comment 3 Brenton Leanhardt 2012-12-13 13:10:26 UTC
Yes

Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2012-12-17 06:49:02 UTC
This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 7 Miroslav Grepl 2012-12-17 08:04:26 UTC
We need to get into RHEL6.4

Comment 9 Miroslav Grepl 2012-12-18 14:50:44 UTC
Fixed in selinux-policy-3.7.19-188.el6

Comment 12 Brenton Leanhardt 2012-12-20 12:58:51 UTC
I have verified that selinux-policy-3.7.19-188.el6 resolves the passenger prespawn error for OpenShift Enterprise.

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 08:33:13 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0314.html


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