Alsa and /etc/ in F7

Stephen Smalley sds at tycho.nsa.gov
Wed Jun 6 12:44:28 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 19:20 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> Every time I suspend my laptop, I get the following from the
> troubleshooter:
> 
> SELinux is preventing /sbin/alsactl (alsa_t) "write" to etc (etc_t).

Specific avc message from /var/log/audit/audit.log or /var/log/messages?

We need to know the precise file/directory being modified there.

> 
> The suggestion to restorecon /etc doesn't seem very sensible, and
> doesn't change anything anyway (so the suggestion is that it's a policy
> bug).
> 
> >From the Additional Information:
> 
> Source Context:  system_u:system_r:alsa_t
> Target Context:  system_u:object_r:etc_t
> Target Objects:  etc [ dir ]
> Affected RPM Packages:  alsa-utils-1.0.14-0.5.rc2.fc7
> [application]filesystem-2.4.6-1.fc7 [target]
> Policy RPM:  selinux-policy-2.6.4-8.fc7
> Selinux Enabled:  True
> Policy Type:  targeted
> MLS Enabled:  True
> Enforcing Mode:  Enforcing
> Plugin Name:  plugins.mislabeled_file
> 
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Stephen Smalley
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