AVC's and Xen

Gawain Lynch gawain.lynch at bigpond.com
Tue Jun 13 16:22:27 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 11:51 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:24 +1000, Gawain Lynch wrote:
> > audit(1150200957.379:95): avc:  denied  { use } for  pid=4853 comm="xm"
> > name="console" dev=tmpfs ino=838 scontext=system_u:system_r:xm_t:s0
> > tcontext=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 tclass=fd
> 
>  What xm command were you doing for this?

xm list
xm create
xm save

All of these were triggering the avc's

>  You can use setbool xm_disable_trans=no, as a temporary workaround.

Is that maybe supposed to be setsebool xm_disable_trans=false

I obviously need to do a *lot* more reading on selinux before going down
this path.  :-)

>  Until recently combining Xen and SELinux basically didn't work at all,
> so we are improving a lot :).

That is OK, I thought it was up and running and just wanted to report
issues.  I'll leave it be for the time being and study up so I can be of
more use in reporting/fixing these things.

Thanks kindly for your help,

Gawain




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