[CentOS] CentOS 7 pcp-pmda-nvidia-gpu SELinux problems

David O'Shea dcoshea at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 28 11:44:40 UTC 2015


I think I worked out one part: the SELinux issues probably didn't pop up initially because the nVidia PMDA was probably started within the context of me running 'sudo ./Install', whereas after a reboot it was started within the context of systemd starting up pmcd.  I just hit a similar issue with a PMDA that I wrote myself, where it worked fine after I ran the Install script but hit SELinux problems after 'sudo systemctl restart pmcd'.

Regards,
David

From: dcoshea at hotmail.com
To: centos at centos.org
Subject: CentOS 7 pcp-pmda-nvidia-gpu SELinux problems
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:47:01 +1000




Hi all,

I installed Performance Co-Pilot 3 days ago, and installed the nVidia PMDA according to the instructions at https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Performance_Tuning_Guide/ch03s03s02.html and was able to view metrics about my video card using pmchart.  I then played around a little with the lmsensors PMDA (but it doesn't look too useful to me - it doesn't support my sensors, and I think it's for a 2.x kernel).

After not looking at PCP at all for a few days, today I tried using pmchart to look at the nVidia metrics again but they were unavailable, and after checking /var/log/messages I found SELinux complaints.  After a few iterations of the suggested 'grep pmdanvidia /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M [...]', 'semodule -i [...].pp', restarting the PCP service, getting new SELinux errors, going back to step 1, I ended up with this content in the .te file:

"""
module doshea-selinux-pcp-pmda-nvidia-gpu 1.0;

require {
    type xserver_misc_device_t;
    type pcp_pmcd_t;
    class capability sys_admin;
    class chr_file { read write ioctl open };
}

#============= pcp_pmcd_t ==============
allow pcp_pmcd_t self:capability sys_admin;

#!!!! This avc is allowed in the current policy
allow pcp_pmcd_t xserver_misc_device_t:chr_file { read write ioctl open };
"""

I don't get why this worked 3 days ago and not today.  I haven't installed many packages in the meantime.

Should I file a bug somewhere about this?

I don't know much about SELinux - I have a slight ability to edit those .te files and I think I remember what to do with them afterwards - but it seems like the sys_admin capability is pretty significant to be granting.  Is there any way to work out why that's needed?

Thanks in advance,
David
 		 	   		   		 	   		  


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