funny AVC from virt-manager

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Tue Sep 18 16:46:05 UTC 2007


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Tom London wrote:
> Running latest rawhide.
> 
> If I try to 'run/open' a kvm virtual machine using virt-manager, I get
> the following AVC:
> 
> type=AVC msg=audit(1189626420.012:34): avc:  denied  { execmem } for
> pid=8603 comm="/usr/share/virt"
> scontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1189626420.012:34): arch=40000003 syscall=192
> success=no exit=-13 a0=0 a1=1000000 a2=7 a3=121 items=0 ppid=8602
> pid=8603 auid=500 uid=500 gid=500 euid=500 suid=500 fsuid=500 egid=500
> sgid=500 fsgid=500 tty=(none) comm="/usr/share/virt"
> exe="/usr/bin/python" subj=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0
> key=(null)
> 
> Notice the reference to '/usr/share/virt'.  This doesn't exist (but
> /usr/share/virt-manager does exist).
> 
> Ignoring the evident problem with virt-manager, any idea why the
> 'audit trail' would appear to be messed up?
> 
> tom
I wonder if virt-manager is changing it's argv[0] to /usr/share/virt
or if this is a bug in the kernel.

Now why it wants execmem is also curious.
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