Re: Swap-related AVC

[Daniel J Walsh]

Emeric Maschino wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  With up-to-date Rawhide, I'm getting the following AVC in
>  my /var/log/messages file:
>
>  Feb 23 20:40:34 zx6000 kernel: audit(1140723618.608:3): avc:  denied
>  { write }
>  for  pid=1340 comm="swapon" name="blkid.tab" dev=dm-0 ino=6253814
>  scontext=system_u:system_r:fsadm_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:object_r:etc_t:s0
>  tclass=file
>  Feb 23 20:40:34 zx6000 kernel: Adding 2031584k swap
>  on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01.  Priority:-2 extents:1 across:2031584k
>
>  I don't know exactly when this problem first appears. It should be noted
>  that, contrarily to what's displayed, my swap partition isn't 2GB in
>  size, but 4GB.
>
>  Is this a general/64-bit specific/ia64 specific issue?
>
>     
The AVC is general.  the inird is creating this file with the wrong context.
>  Many thanks,
>
>          Émeric
>
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