unlabeled_t types for files

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Thu Oct 18 17:44:57 UTC 2012


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On 10/18/2012 01:08 PM, Anamitra Dutta Majumdar (anmajumd) wrote:
> We have been recently seeing some denials related to one of our files I
> ramfs
> 
> The audit2allow shows as follows
> 
> allow mount_t unlabeled_t:filesystem relabelfrom; Our product is based on
> RHEL6 . We did not see this in the RHEL5 version of our product.
> 
> Why would there be files of type unlabeled_t  on the system  with the move
> to RHEL6?
> 
> Thanks, Anamitra
> 
> 
> 
> -- selinux mailing list selinux at lists.fedoraproject.org 
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Could be a label that the RHEL6 policy does not understand.

unlabeled_t means a file/device has a label that the kernel does not understand.

Running restorecon on the object should fix it.

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