Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc1 + selinux new options = no httpd
From: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:47:53 -0400
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On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 10:44 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 09:09 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 31 July 2008, James Morris wrote:
> 
> > >What AVC messages are you seeing?
> > 
> > I posted the whole screen from setroubleshoot earlier.
> 
> I'm sorry but I can't seem to find it in your original message...
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121747333012971&w=2
> 
> Do you have another pointer?  I can't think of anything that went into
> 2.6.27 related to SELinux that should have in any way changed file
> access checks but I'll poke through the changelog and see if something
> stands out...

I suspect it is the append bug introduced by the vfs changes, fixed by
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121726661110266&w=2

httpd would only be allowed append permission to its log file by policy.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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