On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:54:25PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:39:19AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > SELinux wants all log files opened with O_APPEND. When > > running non-root though, libvirtd likes to use O_TRUNC > > to avoid log files growing in size indefinitely. Instead > > of using O_TRUNC though, we can use O_APPEND and then > > call ftruncate() which keeps SELinux happier. > > As far as I can see, although this patch doesn't break anything, it > doesn't fix the SELinux problem either. SELinux still prevents qemu > from writing to the log. The AVCs look the same as before: > > type=AVC msg=audit(1348227948.158:14174): avc: denied { append } for pid=13139 comm="qemu-kvm" path="/home/rjones/.cache/libvirt/qemu/log/guestfs-wd6efsxohmy5jd2s.log" dev="dm-5" ino=1870215 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:svirt_t:s0:c69,c512 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:cache_home_t:s0 tclass=file > type=AVC msg=audit(1348227948.158:14174): avc: denied { append } for pid=13139 comm="qemu-kvm" path="/home/rjones/.cache/libvirt/qemu/log/guestfs-wd6efsxohmy5jd2s.log" dev="dm-5" ino=1870215 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:svirt_t:s0:c69,c512 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:cache_home_t:s0 tclass=file The target context here is unconfined_u:object_r:cache_home_t:s0 which is wrong. The context ought to be virt_home_t instead of cache_home_t. Try changing the libvirt directories to have virt_home_t as their type. Then my patch ought to do something useful. We need to check if SELinux policy knows about $HOME/.cache/libvirt and $HOME/.config/libvirt, or whether it still only considers the old location of $HOME/.libvirt Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list