Re: 2.6.27-rc1 + selinux new options = no httpd

[Stephen Smalley]

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...

It could be the append bug introduced by the vfs changes.
See:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121726661110266&w=2

That would break any case where only append permission is granted (not
full write access), as would be typical for httpd log files.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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