[refpolicy] Help with policy definition.

[guido@trentalancia.com (Guido Trentalancia)]

Hi Sam !

On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 16:26 -0700, Sam Gandhi wrote:
> I am writing a policy for embedded device that I am working with. When
> I am in permissive mode I can login to my console located on
> /dev/ttymxc1.
> 
> which generate AVC message
> 
> user.notice kernel: type=1400 audit(165.890:8): avc:  denied  {
> relabelto } for  pid=605 comm="login" name="ttymxc1" dev=tmpfs
> ino=1475 scontext=system_u:system_r:kernel_t
> tcontext=user_u:object_r:tty_device_t tclass=chr_file
> 
> which audit2allow says should translate to :
> 
>      allow kernel_t tty_device_t:chr_file relabelto;
> 
> Even if with above allow rule when in enforcing mode I am not able to
> login to my serial console and I get message on the console.

Have you tried to check for rules that are "dontaudit"'ed (semodule -DB
and then revert back using semodule -B once finished analysing) ?

> login: chsid(/dev/ttymxc1, user_u:object_r:tty_device_t) failed:

Can you do some sort of tracing of the system calls and signals close to
the failure point ?

There is something missing after "failed:" (the reason for failure) that
a human can hardly figure out...

And you are not using login from util-linux-ng, are you ?

And the policy, you didn't say much, is it plain refpolicy from git or
release ?

> /dev/ttymxc1 in my case has label of  user_u:object_r:tty_device_t
> 
> What am I missing in my configuration or any hints on how I should go
> about debugging this issue/

> /Sam

Guido