Does mcs work on rawhide correctly?

Stephen Smalley sds at tycho.nsa.gov
Mon Jan 26 14:30:42 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 13:09 +0900, KaiGai Kohei wrote:
> I found a strange behavior with selinux-policy-3.6.3-8.fc11.noarch.
> 
> [root at masu ~]# sestatus
> SELinux status:                 enabled
> SELinuxfs mount:                /selinux
> Current mode:                   enforcing
> Mode from config file:          enforcing
> Policy version:                 24
> Policy from config file:        targeted
> [root at masu ~]# touch aaa
> [root at masu ~]# ls -Z aaa
> -rw-r--r--  root root unconfined_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 aaa
> [root at masu ~]# id -Z
> unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c31
> [root at masu ~]# chcon -l s0:c0 aaa
> chcon: failed to change context of `aaa' to `unconfined_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0:c0': Operation not permitted
> 
> Why "s0-s0:c0.c31" cannot change the context from "s0" to "s0:c0"?
> 
> I could reproduce the matter after "semodule -B".
> 
> Is there anyone who can reproduce the matter?

What avc denial did you get?

It is interesting that you got Operation not permitted (EPERM) rather
than Permission denied (EACCES) - that usually reflects a capability
denial.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency




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