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Message-Id: <1217595068.20373.307.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil>
Date:	Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:51:08 -0400
From:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>
To:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
Cc:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc1 + selinux new options = no httpd


On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 10:44 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 09:09 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 31 July 2008, James Morris wrote:
> 
> > >What AVC messages are you seeing?
> > 
> > I posted the whole screen from setroubleshoot earlier.
> 
> I'm sorry but I can't seem to find it in your original message...
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121747333012971&w=2
> 
> Do you have another pointer?  I can't think of anything that went into
> 2.6.27 related to SELinux that should have in any way changed file
> access checks but I'll poke through the changelog and see if something
> stands out...

It could be the append bug introduced by the vfs changes.
See:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121726661110266&w=2

That would break any case where only append permission is granted (not
full write access), as would be typical for httpd log files.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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