I'm pretty sure this doesn't have anything to do with the kernel end but is probably some sort of policy issue instead. I've CCed the fedora-selinux list for an answer. The CC to linux-kernel should probably be dropped from the reply there. Dave On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 17:34 +0200, Enrique Perez-Terron wrote: > Fedora core 9 stock kernel 2.6.25.108 i586 > > Udp bind() fails with EACCESS when selinux enforcing, but no audit > messages. > > How to reproduce: > > In startup scripts, configure rpc.statd to use the fixed port 34. > This port does not occur in /etc/services > (In /etc/sysconfig/nfs, STATD_PORT=34) > > Write the following script, run it with bash -x. > > #!/bin/bash > > TESTDIR=/var/tmp/se-bind-test-$$ > mkdir $TESTDIR # to hold about 50 files > cd $TESTDIR > > # Stop NFS: > service nfs stop > service nfslock stop > > # Gather some baseline data for easy comparison > echo 1 /selinux/enforce # just in case > dmesg > dmesg-enforc-before > wc /var/log/audit/audit.log > audit-enforc-before > > # This fails > strace -o enforc -ff service nfslock start > > # But no new messages in logs > dmesg > dmesg-enforc-after > wc /var/log/audit/audit.log > audit-enforc-after > > # Try again in permissive mode > echo 0 /selinux/enforce > dmesg > dmesg-nonenf-before > wc /var/log/audit/audit.log > audit-nonenf-before > > # Since this works, daemon starts, and strace hangs on > # Need sigkill; sigint does not work. Why? > (sleep 5; killall -9 strace) & > strace -o nonenf -ff service nfslock start > > # Just for symmetry > dmesg > dmesg-nonenf-after > wc /var/log/audit/audit.log > audit-nonenf-after > > # Check that there are no audits. > diff dmesg-enforc-before dmesg-enforc-after > diff audit-enforc-before audit-enforc-after > > # There are several other calls to bind() that are not prevented > grep -E '^bind|^socket' enforc.* > grep -E '^bind|^socket' nonenf.* > > Regards > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list