Alsa and /etc/ in F7

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Mon Jun 11 17:38:05 UTC 2007


Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 19:20 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>   
>> Every time I suspend my laptop, I get the following from the
>> troubleshooter:
>>
>> SELinux is preventing /sbin/alsactl (alsa_t) "write" to etc (etc_t).
>>     
>
> Specific avc message from /var/log/audit/audit.log or /var/log/messages?
>
> We need to know the precise file/directory being modified there.
>
>   
Probably /etc/asound.state

This is mislabeled.  And I believe should be fixed in latest polcy 
(2.6.4-13)


>> The suggestion to restorecon /etc doesn't seem very sensible, and
>> doesn't change anything anyway (so the suggestion is that it's a policy
>> bug).
>>
>> >From the Additional Information:
>>
>> Source Context:  system_u:system_r:alsa_t
>> Target Context:  system_u:object_r:etc_t
>> Target Objects:  etc [ dir ]
>> Affected RPM Packages:  alsa-utils-1.0.14-0.5.rc2.fc7
>> [application]filesystem-2.4.6-1.fc7 [target]
>> Policy RPM:  selinux-policy-2.6.4-8.fc7
>> Selinux Enabled:  True
>> Policy Type:  targeted
>> MLS Enabled:  True
>> Enforcing Mode:  Enforcing
>> Plugin Name:  plugins.mislabeled_file
>>
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