SELinux policy reload cannot be sent to audit system

[Steve Grubb]

On Thursday, November 05, 2015 09:32:09 AM Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Le 05/11/15 04:23, Steve Grubb a écrit :
> > On Tuesday, November 03, 2015 09:48:31 PM Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> >> Le 03/11/15 21:08, Richard Guy Briggs a écrit :
> >>> On 15/11/03, Steve Grubb wrote:
> >>>> On Tuesday, November 03, 2015 06:12:07 PM Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> >>>>> I'm running in permissive mode.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> I'm seeing a netlink open to the audit:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> dbus-daem 1057 messagebus    7u  netlink 0t0  15248 AUDIT
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Apparently audit_send() returns -1
> >>>> 
> >>>> Since its -1, that would be an EPERM. No idea where this is coming from
> >>>> if you have CAP_AUDIT_WRITE. I use pscap to check that.
> >>> 
> >>> Are you in a container of any kind or any non-init USER namespace?  I
> >>> can't see it being denied otherwise assuming it is only trying to send
> >>> AUDIT_USER_* class messages.  (This assumes upstream kernel.)
> >> 
> >> No, I initially saw this on my laptop and then tested on F23 in kvm.
> > 
> > I tested this on Fedora 22 and did not get a USER_AVC from dbus, but I
> > also
> > did not get an error message in syslog. So, I don't know what to make of
> > it. (And for the record, I have a bz open saying that USER_AVC is the
> > wrong event type. They are blaming libselinux but I blame them for not
> > using
> > AUDIT_USER_MAC_POLICY_LOAD.)
> 
> The audit code in dbus has been refactored a bit in the version present
> F23 and debian unstable, so it might be related to this that.


I filed a bz to get this fixed:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1278602

The root cause is listed in the bug. Dbus has 2 threads, one with 
CAP_AUDIT_WRITE and one without. The one without is the one trying to send the 
event.

-Steve