SELinux kerneloops and dhclient issues

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Thu Sep 11 12:43:23 UTC 2008


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Stephen Croll wrote:
> Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>> So it looks like you already have a leaked file descriptor in the shell
>> that you are running these commands from
>>
>> Does ls -lZ /proc/self/fd show anything stange?
> Yes it does, fd 25:
> 
> [root at gerbil ~]# ls -lZ /proc/self/fd
> lrwx------  root root
> unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 0 -> /dev/pts/0
> lrwx------  root root
> unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 1 -> /dev/pts/0
> lrwx------  root root
> unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 2 -> /dev/pts/0
> lrwx------  root root
> unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 25 -> socket:[18571]
> lr-x------  root root
> unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 3 -> /proc/3446/fd
> 
> It would appear fd 3 is what ls is using to read the entries in
> /proc/self/fd (also verified with strace):
> 
> [root at gerbil ~]# ls -lZ /proc/self/fd &
> lrwx------  root root
> unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 0 -> /dev/pts/0
> lrwx------  root root
> unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 1 -> /dev/pts/0
> lrwx------  root root
> unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 2 -> /dev/pts/0
> lrwx------  root root
> unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 25 -> socket:[18571]
> lr-x------  root root
> unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 3 -> /proc/3463/fd
> [1] 3463
> [1]+  Done                    ls --color=auto -lZ /proc/self/fd
> 
> I've been trying to figure out the mysteries of NetworkManager and
> mixing wired and wireless connections.  I just noticed that if I don't
> have NetworkManager configured at boot, I don't get the AVC denial nor
> do I see the socket on fd 25.
>
> Additionally, I noticed that even if NetworkManager is configured at
> boot, I don't see the AVC denial/fd 25 issue when running in a virtual
> terminal.  Upon further investigation, this issue only seems to occur
> when running KDE+konsole, but not KDE+gnome-terminal, nor
> GNOME+konsole, nor GNOME+gnome-terminal.
>
So KDE+Konsole seems to be leaking a file descriptor.

> Also, I don't see fd 25 when connecting remotely (over SSH) and
> running the above ls command.
> 
> -- 
> Steve Croll
> 
> 

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