Question on SELinux AVC messages with systemd.

[Dave Jones]

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

It's been this way for years.  I first noticed it when it triggered a bug
in agpgart a long time ago.

	Dave