Question on SELinux AVC messages with systemd.

[Jon Masters]

On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 14:30 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 04:26:14PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>  > On Tue, 20.07.10 16:04, Lennart Poettering (mzerqung at 0pointer.de) wrote:
>  > 
>  > > I am not entirely sure though why those processes actually access those
>  > > dirs in this case. Maybe they are iterating through the files in /dev?
>  > > Smells a bit broken to me.
>  > 
>  > OK, the udevd is a result from /lib/udev/devices/ which is copied to
>  > /dev early on boot by udevd. Kay says that this dir reeally should not
>  > be put in /lib/udev/devices/.
>  > 
>  > Still puzzled why LVM wants with /dev/mqueue though. Anybody from LVM
>  > around who can say something about this?
> 
> lvm is brain damaged.  strace lvm pvscan, and watch as it opens a bunch
> of stuff that there's no way there'd ever be a volume on.
> /dev/snd/*, tty's, usbmon etc etc

There is a config file that it reads, which indicates what kinds of
devices to scan. I forwarded your mail to some LVM folks for input.

Jon.