glance-registry/selinux policy problem

[Joe Breu]

The MySQL server is on the local host but connecting over a TCP socket. 

On Jun 14, 2012, at 7:34 PM, Pádraig Brady <P at draigBrady.com> wrote:

> On 06/14/2012 09:45 PM, Joseph Breu wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Running through a Fedora/OpenStack deployment in our lab and ran into the following selinux policy violation:
>> 
>> type=AVC msg=audit(1339706457.635:1431): avc:  denied  { name_connect } for  pid=31822 comm="glance-registry" dest=3306 scontext=system_u:system_r:glance_registry_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:mysqld_port_t:s0 tclass=tcp_socket
>> 
>> I have the following installed:
>> openstack-glance-2012.1-4.fc17.noarch
>> python-glance-2012.1-4.fc17.noarch
>> selinux-policy-targeted-3.10.0-130.fc17.noarch
>> selinux-policy-3.10.0-130.fc17.noarch
> 
> So they're the latest selinux policy packages.
> The changelog says 3.10.0-120 allowed glance to connect to mysql.
> Though looking at the change it added:
> 
>  mysql_stream_connect(glance_registry_t)
> 
> That only allows connecting on a local unix stream socket I think.
> We might have to add this rule for more general connections?
> 
>  allow glance_registry_t mysqld_port_t:tcp_socket name_connect;
> 
> You could test it out temporarily like:
> 
>  echo 'type=AVC ... rest from above' | audit2allow -M openstack-glance
>  semodule -i openstack-glance.pp
> 
> Is your mysql server on a separate system to the glance-registry service?
> Could you send the output from:
> 
>  grep sql_connection /etc/glance/glance-registry.conf
> 
> cheers,
> Pádraig.