AVCs denied from latest FC4 kernel startup

Stephen Smalley sds at tycho.nsa.gov
Mon Feb 6 13:57:33 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 23:35 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> After installing kernel-2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 (or any of the 2.6.15 kernels), 
> I get the following on startup.  Startup appears to complete normally and 
> the system seems functional (at least for what I've tried so far).
> 
> audit(1139113698.796:2): avc:  denied  { search } for  pid=578 
> comm="hotplug" name="proc" dev=dm-0 ino=851969 
> scontext=system_u:system_r:hotplug_t 
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t tclass=dir

Likely an interleaving of device detection / hotplug execution with the
initial policy load by init, during which inodes are still being set up
by SELinux.  bugzilla against the kernel please.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency




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