SELinux prevented umount from mounting on the file or directory "/media/.hal-mtab-lock" (type "mnt_t").

[Antonio Olivares]

Dear all,

I have gotten a new avc., after applying the updates, the other ones disappeared :)  Hope that was just it.

Regards,

Antonio

Summary:

SELinux prevented umount from mounting on the file or directory
"/media/.hal-mtab-lock" (type "mnt_t").

Detailed Description:

SELinux prevented umount from mounting a filesystem on the file or directory
"/media/.hal-mtab-lock" of type "mnt_t". By default SELinux limits the mounting
of filesystems to only some files or directories (those with types that have the
mountpoint attribute). The type "mnt_t" does not have this attribute. You can
either relabel the file or directory or set the boolean "allow_mount_anyfile" to
true to allow mounting on any file or directory.

Allowing Access:

Changing the "allow_mount_anyfile" boolean to true will allow this access:
"setsebool -P allow_mount_anyfile=1."

Fix Command:

setsebool -P allow_mount_anyfile=1

Additional Information:

Source Context                system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0
Target Context                system_u:object_r:mnt_t:s0
Target Objects                /media/.hal-mtab-lock [ file ]
Source                        umount
Source Path                   /bin/umount
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          localhost.localdomain
Source RPM Packages           util-linux-ng-2.13.1-6.fc9
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.3.1-51.fc9
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
MLS Enabled                   True
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Plugin Name                   allow_mount_anyfile
Host Name                     localhost.localdomain
Platform                      Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64
                              #1 SMP Tue May 13 04:54:47 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   1
First Seen                    Thu 22 May 2008 03:52:14 PM CDT
Last Seen                     Thu 22 May 2008 03:52:14 PM CDT
Local ID                      b4ecd96d-7c1b-4016-84f4-b9edb6aa30c9
Line Numbers

Raw Audit Messages

host=localhost.localdomain type=AVC msg=audit(1211489534.822:146): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=16678 comm="umount" path="/media/.hal-mtab-lock" dev=dm-0 ino=1785858 scontext=system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:mnt_t:s0 tclass=file

host=localhost.localdomain type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1211489534.822:146): arch=c000003e syscall=59 success=yes exit=0 a0=403665 a1=7fff62ce68d0 a2=7fff62ce6f58 a3=0 items=0 ppid=16677 pid=16678 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="umount" exe="/bin/umount" subj=system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0 key=(null)

[Todd Zullinger]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> SELinux prevented umount from mounting on the file or directory
> "/media/.hal-mtab-lock" (type "mnt_t").

I just started seeing this in the past day or so as well (on F-9).  It
happens anytime I unmount removable media, like usb sticks or an ipod.

This is with selinux-policy-3.3.1-51.fc9.noarch