I have been getting alot of AVCs that are related to dbus. A quick check shows that I have 2 dbus daemons running.
$ ps aux | grep dbus dbus 1615 0.0 0.1 14160 1880 ? Ssl 11:53 0:01 dbus-daemon --system
gdm 2385 0.0 0.0 3312 580 ? S 11:54 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session
steve 2650 0.0 0.0 3312 576 ? S 11:58 0:00 dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
steve 2652 0.1 0.1 13528 1484 ? Ssl 11:58 0:01 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 7 --print-address 9 --session
steve 3154 0.0 0.0 4192 708 pts/0 S+ 12:16 0:00 grep dbus
The one that is owned by dbus has a system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t context.
The one that is owned by me has a unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t context.
First question: should I really have 2 dbus-daemons?
One AVC says that the dbus daemon owned by dbus can't search unconfined_t. It was trying to search /proc/2963 which was the gpk-update-viewer which was running unconfined. (I'm running SELinux in permissive mode)
$ ps -efZ | grep 2964 unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 steve 2963 1 3 12:05 ? 00:00:07 gpk-update-viewer
Second question: does dbus have any reason to look at gpk-update viewer?
Clearly, it needs to record the fact that the system was updated but why does it need to check the update viewer for that?
Last question: how do I fix this? I don't have any modified or additional SELinux policies so I would have thought this would work "out-of-the-box".
Here is the raw audit message:
node=steve.blackwell type=AVC msg=audit(1264871141.507:132): avc: denied { search } for pid=1615 comm="dbus-daemon" name="2963" dev=proc ino=17982 scontext=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=dir
$ sestatus SELinux status: enabled SELinuxfs mount: /selinux Current mode: permissive Mode from config file: permissive Policy version: 24 Policy from config file: targeted
$ rpm -qa | grep selinux libselinux-2.0.80-1.fc11.i586 selinux-policy-targeted-3.6.12-93.fc11.noarch libselinux-utils-2.0.80-1.fc11.i586 libselinux-devel-2.0.80-1.fc11.i586 libselinux-python-2.0.80-1.fc11.i586 selinux-policy-3.6.12-93.fc11.noarch
Thanks, Steve