setroubleshoot - kills itself

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Sun Jan 4 19:40:12 UTC 2009


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Mail Lists wrote:
> I was monitoring a remote server (permissive mode) via sealert -b
> when setroubleshootd exited with this in /var/log/messages:
> 
> 
> Did selinux deny setroubleshootd ?
> 
> gene
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Jan  3 13:48:03 web1 setroubleshoot: [program.ERROR] setroubleshoot
> generated
> AVC, exiting to avoid recursion,
> context=system_u:system_r:setroubleshootd_t:s0, AVC
> scontext=system_u:system_r:setroubleshootd_t:s0
> Jan  3 13:48:03 web1 setroubleshoot: [program.ERROR] audit
> event#012node=web1.prv.sapience.com
> type=AVC msg=audit(1231008483.779:1387): avc:  denied  { signull }
> for  pid=265 9 comm="setroubleshootd"
> scontext=system_u:system_r:setroubleshootd_t:s0
> tcontext=unconf ined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0
> tclass=process#012#012node=web1.prv.sapience.com type=SYSCALL
> msg=audit(1231008483.779:1387): arch=40000003 syscall=37
> success=yes exit=0 a0=2079 a1=0 a2=ad454c a3=2079 items=0
> ppid=1 pid=2659 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0
>  suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295
>  comm="setroubleshootd"
> exe=2F7573722F62696E2F707974686F6E2E237072656C696E6B23202864656C6574656429
>  subj=system_u: system_r:setroubleshootd_t:s0 key=(null)
> 
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setroubleshoot will die if it finds an AVC about it self to prevent an
infinite loop of avcs.


setroubleshoot can send itself a signull on both Rawhide and F10 with
the latest updates.
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