Systemd is causing mislabeled devices to be created and then attempting to read them.

Systemd is causing mislabeled devices to be created and then attempting to read them.

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On 07/28/2010 05:57 AM, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:43, Lennart Poettering
> <lennart@poettering.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 26.07.10 16:42, Daniel J Walsh (dwalsh@redhat.com) wrote:
>>> tcontext=system_u:object_r:device_t:s0 tclass=chr_file
>>> type=1400 audit(1280174589.476:7): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=1
>>> comm="systemd" name="autofs" dev=devtmpfs ino=9482
>>> scontext=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0
>>> tcontext=system_u:object_r:device_t:s0 tclass=chr_file
>>> type=1400 audit(1280174589.476:8): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=1
>>> comm="systemd" name="autofs" dev=devtmpfs ino=9482
>>> scontext=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0
>>> tcontext=system_u:object_r:device_t:s0 tclass=chr_file
>>>
>>> Lennart, we talked about this earlier.  I think this is caused by the
>>> modprobe calls to create /dev/autofs.  Since udev is not created at the
>>> point that init loads the kernel modules, the devices get created with
>>> the wrong label.  Once udev starts the labels get fixed.
>>>
>>> I can allow init_t to read device_t chr_files.
>>
>> Hmm, I think a cleaner fix would be to make systemd relabel this device
>> properly before accessing it? Given that this is only one device this
>> should not be a problem for us to maintain, I think? How would the
>> fixing of the label work? Would we have to spawn restorecon for this, or
>> can we actually do this in C without too much work?
>
> I guess we can just do what udev is doing, and call setfilecon(), with
> a context of an earlier matchpathcon().
>
> Kay
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Here is the updated patch with a fix for the labeling of /dev/autofs
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