On RHEL 8, a SELinux policy is missing when ovs-kmod-ctl use modprobe to load kernel modules. This patch adds the missing permissions based on /var/log/audit/audit.log
Example log of the AVC violations: type=AVC msg=audit(1599075387.136:65): avc: denied { read } for pid=1472 comm="modprobe" name="modules.alias.bin" dev="dm-0" ino=586629 scontext=system_u:system_r:openvswitch_load_module_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:modules_dep_t:s0 tclass=file permissive=0 type=AVC msg=audit(1599085253.148:45): avc: denied { open } for pid=1355 comm="modprobe" path="/usr/lib/modules/4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64/modules.dep.bin" dev="dm-0" ino=624258 scontext=system_u:system_r:openvswitch_load_module_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:modules_dep_t:s0 tclass=file permissive=0 VMWare-BZ: #2633569 Signed-off-by: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung....@gmail.com> --- selinux/openvswitch-custom.te.in | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/selinux/openvswitch-custom.te.in b/selinux/openvswitch-custom.te.in index 2adaf231fe63..beb0ab0d6612 100644 --- a/selinux/openvswitch-custom.te.in +++ b/selinux/openvswitch-custom.te.in @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ require { type kernel_t; type hostname_exec_t; type modules_conf_t; + type modules_dep_t; type modules_object_t; type passwd_file_t; type plymouth_exec_t; @@ -121,6 +122,7 @@ allow openvswitch_load_module_t insmod_exec_t:file { execute execute_no_trans ge allow openvswitch_load_module_t kernel_t:system module_request; allow openvswitch_load_module_t modules_conf_t:dir { getattr open read search }; allow openvswitch_load_module_t modules_conf_t:file { getattr open read }; +allow openvswitch_load_module_t modules_dep_t:file { getattr map open read }; allow openvswitch_load_module_t modules_object_t:file { map getattr open read }; allow openvswitch_load_module_t modules_object_t:dir { getattr open read search }; allow openvswitch_load_module_t openvswitch_load_module_exec_t:file { entrypoint }; -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev