Re: [Virtio-fs] regression: lsetfilecon fails, breaks rpm, dpkg, dnf in virtiofs guests.

[Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>]

On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 01:42:50PM -0500, Harry G. Coin wrote:
> Some regression in virtio-fs has led to rpm/dnf/yum failing  in the same
> guest it previously worked.
> 
> linux 5.11.19-300.fc34.x86_64
> 
> Specifically, all attempts to use dnf/yum lead to examples similar to this:
> 
> Error unpacking rpm package dnf-4.7.0-1.fc34.noarch
>   Upgrading        :
> python3-dnf-plugins-core-4.0.21-1.fc34.noarch                                                                                                                                                     
> 8/20
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/dnf;60b1b277: cpio:
> (error 0x2)
> error: dnf-4.7.0-1.fc34.noarch: install failed
> error: lsetfilecon: (/etc/dnf/plugins/copr.conf,
> system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0) Operation not permitted
> error: Plugin selinux: hook fsm_file_prepare failed

CCing Dan Walsh and Ondrej. They might have an idea.

Thanks
Vivek

> 
> (
> 
> For all packages.  No updates are possible.  Possibly related to:
> https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy/pull/478/files/21a2df26cd605c55de7edc80e16907fcb76ccf08 
> ?  What really gets me, is this error exists even though
> 
> # getenforce
> Permissive
> 
> )
> 
> The host is running btrfs.  ... virtiofsd --fd=50 -o
> source=/vmsystems/fedora_generic,xattr,flock,posix_lock
> 
> same effect with  .... virtiofsd --fd=36 -o
> source=/vmsystems/dbl1,xattr,flock,no_posix_lock
> 
> /etc/fstab:
> 
> myfs / virtiofs seclabel 0 0
> 
> 
> 
> 
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