A lot of selinux execstack denials in rawhide when starting audio apps

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Mon Oct 8 11:44:17 UTC 2007


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Ken YANG wrote:
> Martin Sourada wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I enabled SELinux for the first time and I got a lot of execstack
>> denials when starting applications providing audio output (so far I got
>> it with listen, rhythmbox, totem and gxine). I have new clean install
>> from latest rawhide live (plus some additional applications). Are these
>> worth filling bugs or are they false positives? I attach an output from
>> this denial for listen music player. I didn't do any actions to fix
>> these denials and the applications seem to work OK. I have SELinux
>> policy set to enforcing. If you need more info, ask. Not sure whether
>> this is for test or devel list so CC-ing devel.
> 
> do you relabel your file system when enabling selinux from disable to
> enforcing?
> 
> your label of python is wrong, it should be bin_t
> 
> by the way, you should send this kind of mails to fedora-selinux
> 
>> Thanks,
>> Martin
>>
> 
Yes please file any execstack avc's with the appropriate application,
and cc me.  You can turn off the execstack protections in order to get
the apps working by executing

setsebool -P allow_execstack 1

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