On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 08:39 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
--- On Fri, 10/17/08, Stephen Smalley <sds(a)tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
> From: Stephen Smalley <sds(a)tycho.nsa.gov>
> Subject: Re: selinux denies dmesg
> To: olivares14031(a)yahoo.com
> Cc: fedora-selinux-list(a)redhat.com
> Date: Friday, October 17, 2008, 7:32 AM
> On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 15:27 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > Dear fellow selinux experts,
> >
> > After recovering from a kernel panic to check up on
> the filesystem, I run dmesg and I encounter some avc's
> >
> > [olivares@riohigh ~]$ dmesg | grep avc
> > type=1400 audit(1224195506.669:4): avc: denied {
> sys_resource } for pid=1534 comm="dmesg"
> capability=24 scontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0 tclass=capability
> > type=1400 audit(1224195506.669:5): avc: denied {
> sys_resource } for pid=1534 comm="dmesg"
> capability=24 scontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0 tclass=capability
> > type=1400 audit(1224195506.669:6): avc: denied {
> sys_resource } for pid=1534 comm="dmesg"
> capability=24 scontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0 tclass=capability
> > type=1400 audit(1224195506.669:7): avc: denied {
> sys_resource } for pid=1534 comm="dmesg"
> capability=24 scontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0 tclass=capability
> > type=1400 audit(1224195506.670:8): avc: denied {
> sys_resource } for pid=1534 comm="dmesg"
> capability=24 scontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0 tclass=capability
> > type=1400 audit(1224195506.670:9): avc: denied {
> sys_resource } for pid=1534 comm="dmesg"
> capability=24 scontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0 tclass=capability
> > type=1400 audit(1224195506.670:10): avc: denied {
> sys_resource } for pid=1534 comm="dmesg"
> capability=24 scontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0 tclass=capability
> > type=1400 audit(1224195506.670:11): avc: denied {
> sys_resource } for pid=1534 comm="dmesg"
> capability=24 scontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0 tclass=capability
> > type=1400 audit(1224195506.670:12): avc: denied {
> sys_resource } for pid=1534 comm="dmesg"
> capability=24 scontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0 tclass=capability
> > type=1400 audit(1224195506.670:13): avc: denied {
> sys_resource } for pid=1534 comm="dmesg"
> capability=24 scontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0 tclass=capability
> >
> >
> > I have just updated to a newer kernel 2.6.27-13 and
> new selinux policy updates :)
> >
> > [olivares@riohigh ~]$ rpm -qa selinux*
> > selinux-policy-3.5.12-2.fc10.noarch
> > selinux-policy-targeted-3.5.12-2.fc10.noarch
> > [olivares@riohigh ~]$
> >
> >
> > What do I do?
>
> Enable syscall auditing and find out what syscall triggered
> the
> CAP_SYS_RESOURCE check.
>
> --
> Stephen Smalley
> National Security Agency
How do I do that:
> Enable syscall auditing and find out what syscall triggered
> the
> CAP_SYS_RESOURCE check.
>
If there is a way to do it?
Do you have auditd running?
Try running:
/sbin/ausearch -m AVC -sv no
I feel that Selinux should not get in the way of dmesg and other
important system commands. Why does it deny it?
Seatroubleshooter has not appeared and on other machine without ext4 I see the following
denials:
[olivares@localhost ~]$ dmesg | grep 'avc'
type=1400 audit(1224252291.136:4): avc: denied { write } for pid=1459
comm="ip6tables-resto" path="/0" dev=devpts ino=2
scontext=system_u:system_r:iptables_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:devpts_t:s0
tclass=chr_file
type=1400 audit(1224252414.451:5): avc: denied { execstack } for pid=2951
comm="knotify4" scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process
[olivares@localhost ~]$ dmesg | grep 'avcs'
[olivares@localhost ~]$ dmesg | grep avc
type=1400 audit(1224252291.136:4): avc: denied { write } for pid=1459
comm="ip6tables-resto" path="/0" dev=devpts ino=2
scontext=system_u:system_r:iptables_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:devpts_t:s0
tclass=chr_file
type=1400 audit(1224252414.451:5): avc: denied { execstack } for pid=2951
comm="knotify4" scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process
[olivares@localhost ~]$
Thanks,
Antonio
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