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Bug 1583797

Summary: qemu-ga does not have read access to utmp
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: jszep
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Lukas Vrabec <lvrabec>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 27CC: dwalsh, lvrabec, mgrepl, plautrba, pmoore
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Fixed In Version: selinux-policy-3.14.2-22.fc29 selinux-policy-3.13.1-284.37.fc27 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Description jszep 2018-05-29 17:42:17 UTC
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same as Redhat bugzilla #1571202.    Also is generating huge numbers of error messages...

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
May 29 04:00:45 wildwest audit[697]: AVC avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=697 comm="qemu-ga" name="utmp" dev="tmpfs" ino=12191 scontext=system_u:system_r:virt_qemu_ga_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:initrc_var_run_t:s0 tclass=file permissive=0
May 29 04:00:48 wildwest setroubleshoot[22037]: SELinux is preventing qemu-ga from read access on the file utmp. For complete SELinux messages run: sealert -l 42c7a22c-86b2-4f2f-85ce-24c246b66afd

Expected Results:  
No messages generated.

This is new behavior since a recent package update.  Looks to be a selinux bug.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2018-07-27 09:23:37 UTC
selinux-policy-3.13.1-284.37.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-4bb4de2d86

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2018-07-27 15:39:44 UTC
selinux-policy-3.13.1-284.37.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-4bb4de2d86

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2018-08-08 15:34:40 UTC
selinux-policy-3.13.1-284.37.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.