avc: denied { ptrace } messages

[Radha Venkatesh (radvenka)]

Thanks, Dominick! That worked! 

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Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:48 AM
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Subject: Re: avc: denied { ptrace } messages

On 06/24/2010 08:39 PM, Radha Venkatesh (radvenka) wrote:
> During the startup of one of our process, I notice a lot of avc denial

> messages for ptrace, as shown below. I have tried the suggestions by 
> audit2allow, used the various macros for ptrace (also pasted below), 
> but nothing seems to work. Could you help?
>  
> type=AVC msg=audit(1277403181.796:261073): avc:  denied  { ptrace } 
> for
> pid=27314 comm="ps" scontext=system_u:system_r:servm_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:udev_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process 
> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1277403181.796:261073): arch=40000003 syscall=3

> success=yes exit=181 a0=7 a1=11f900 a2=3ff a3=11f8a0 items=0 
> ppid=27313
> pid=27314 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 
> sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="ps" exe="/bin/ps"
> subj=system_u:system_r:servm_t:s0 key=(null) type=AVC 
> msg=audit(1277403181.797:261074): avc:  denied  { ptrace } for
> pid=27314 comm="ps" scontext=system_u:system_r:servm_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:setrans_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process 
> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1277403181.797:261074): arch=40000003 syscall=3

> success=yes exit=183 a0=7 a1=11f900 a2=3ff a3=11f8a0 items=0 
> ppid=27313
> pid=27314 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 
> sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="ps" exe="/bin/ps"
> subj=system_u:system_r:servm_t:s0 key=(null) type=AVC 
> msg=audit(1277403181.799:261075): avc:  denied  { ptrace } for
> pid=27314 comm="ps" scontext=system_u:system_r:servm_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:sshd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process 
> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1277403181.799:261075): arch=40000003 syscall=3

> success=yes exit=187 a0=7 a1=11f900 a2=3ff a3=11f8a0 items=0 
> ppid=27313
> pid=27314 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 
> sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="ps" exe="/bin/ps"
> subj=system_u:system_r:servm_t:s0 key=(null) type=AVC 
> msg=audit(1277403181.799:261076): avc:  denied  { ptrace } for
> pid=27314 comm="ps" scontext=system_u:system_r:servm_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:crond_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process 
> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1277403181.799:261076): arch=40000003 syscall=3

> success=yes exit=185 a0=7 a1=11f900 a2=3ff a3=11f8a0 items=0 
> ppid=27313
> pid=27314 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 
> sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="ps" exe="/bin/ps"
> subj=system_u:system_r:servm_t:s0 key=(null) type=AVC 
> msg=audit(1277403181.800:261077): avc:  denied  { ptrace } for
> pid=27314 comm="ps" scontext=system_u:system_r:servm_t:s0
> tcontext=root:sysadm_r:sysadm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process 
> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1277403181.800:261077): arch=40000003 syscall=3

> success=yes exit=203 a0=7 a1=11f900 a2=3ff a3=11f8a0 items=0 
> ppid=27313
> pid=27314 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 
> sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="ps" exe="/bin/ps"
> subj=system_u:system_r:servm_t:s0 key=(null) type=AVC 
> msg=audit(1277403181.801:261078): avc:  denied  { ptrace } for
> pid=27314 comm="ps" scontext=system_u:system_r:servm_t:s0
> tcontext=root:system_r:auditd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process 
> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1277403181.801:261078): arch=40000003 syscall=3

> success=yes exit=200 a0=7 a1=11f900 a2=3ff a3=11f8a0 items=0 
> ppid=27313
> pid=27314 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 
> sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="ps" exe="/bin/ps"
> subj=system_u:system_r:servm_t:s0 key=(null) type=AVC 
> msg=audit(1277403181.801:261079): avc:  denied  { ptrace } for
> pid=27314 comm="ps" scontext=system_u:system_r:servm_t:s0
> tcontext=root:system_r:audisp_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process
>  
> The audit2allow tools suggests the below
>  
> allow servm_t audisp_t:process ptrace; allow servm_t auditd_t:process 
> ptrace; allow servm_t crond_t:process ptrace;  allow servm_t 
> setrans_t:process ptrace; allow servm_t sshd_t:process ptrace; allow 
> servm_t sysadm_t:process ptrace; allow servm_t udev_t:process ptrace;
>  
> However, when these rules were added, there was no change in the avc 
> messages. I also tried the macro
>  
> domain_ptrace_all_domains(servm_t)
>  
> and
>  
> allow servm_t self:capability { sys_ptrace };
>  
> But none of this makes a difference to the avc messages generated.

try these:

domain_ptrace_all_domains(servm_t)
mcs_ptrace_all(servm_t)

> Thanks,
> Radha.
> 
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