Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: libselinux (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
resetting /proc/thread-self/attr/fscreate results in 'Invalid
Argument'
Status in libselinux package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
root@ubuntu:~# useradd -g 100 tst003
useradd: failure while writing changes to /etc/passwd
root@ubuntu:~# sestatus
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory: /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name: default
Current mode: permissive
Mode from config file: permissive
Policy MLS status: enabled
Policy deny_unknown status: allowed
Memory protection checking: requested (insecure)
Max kernel policy version: 31
The problem does not occur when SELinux is complete disabled.
Please note that a very similar problem occurs using groupadd:
root@ubuntu:~# groupadd tstgrp001
groupadd: failure while writing changes to /etc/group
= journal =
(Please note that there is *no* AVC!)
May 05 05:11:44 ubuntu useradd[756]: new user: name=tst003, UID=1004,
GID=100, home=/home/tst003, shell=/bin/sh
May 05 05:11:44 ubuntu audit[756]: ADD_USER pid=756 uid=0 auid=1002 ses=1
subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=adding user
id=1004 exe="/usr/sbin/useradd" hostname=ubuntu addr=? terminal=pts/0
res=success'
May 05 05:11:44 ubuntu useradd[756]: failure while writing changes to
/etc/passwd
May 05 05:11:44 ubuntu audit[756]: ADD_USER pid=756 uid=0 auid=1002 ses=1
subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=adding user
acct="tst003" exe="/usr/sbin/useradd" hostname=ubuntu addr=? terminal=pts/0
res=failed'
May 05 05:11:44 ubuntu useradd[756]: failed adding user 'tst003', data deleted
= ltrace =
[pid 1074] SYS_write(12, "root:x:"..., 1360) = 1360
[pid 1074] <... fflush resumed> ) = 0
[pid 1074] fileno(0x5595b21c6200) = 12
[pid 1074] fsync(12, 0x5595b21c62e0, 0, 0x7ff933d5c154 <unfinished ...>
[pid 1074] SYS_fsync(12) = 0
[pid 1074] <... fsync resumed> ) = 0
[pid 1074] fclose(0x5595b21c6200 <unfinished ...>
[pid 1074] SYS_close(12) = 0
[pid 1074] <... fclose resumed> ) = 0
[pid 1074] utime(0x7ffee34207e0, 0x7ffee34206b0, 0x5595b21af010, 1
<unfinished ...>
[pid 1074] SYS_utime("/etc/passwd-", 0x7ffee34206b0) = 0
[pid 1074] <... utime resumed> ) = 0
[pid 1074] fclose(0x5595b21af2a0 <unfinished ...>
[pid 1074] SYS_close(5) = 0
[pid 1074] <... fclose resumed> ) = 0
[pid 1074] setfscreatecon(0, 0x5595b21af118, 1, 2 <unfinished ...>
[pid 1074] SYS_openat(0xffffff9c, 0x5595b21cebc0, 0x80002, 0) = 5
[pid 1074] SYS_write(5, nil, 0) = -22
[pid 1074] SYS_close(5) = 0
[pid 1074] <... setfscreatecon resumed> ) = 0xffffffff
[pid 1074] free(0x5595b21b9dc0) = <void>
[pid 1074] free(0x5595b21b8a00) = <void>
[pid 1074] strlen("x") = 1
[pid 1074] memset(0x5595b21b7560, '\0', 1) = 0x5595b21b7560
[pid 1074] free(0x5595b21b7560) = <void>
[pid 1074] free(0x5595b21b94e0) = <void>
[pid 1074] free(0x5595b21b9000) = <void>
[pid 1074] free(0x5595b21b8fc0) = <void>
= strace =
write(12, "root:x:"..., 1360) = 1360
fsync(12) = 0
close(12) = 0
utime("/etc/passwd-", {actime=1525497034 /* 2018-05-05T05:10:34+0000 */,
modtime=1525496803 /* 2018-05-05T05:06:43+0000 */}) = 0
close(5) = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/thread-self/attr/fscreate", O_RDWR|O_CLOEXEC) = 5
write(5, NULL, 0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
close(5) = 0
= Version Information =
root@ubuntu:~# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04
root@ubuntu:~# dpkg -l | grep passwd | grep -v base-pa
ii passwd 1:4.5-1ubuntu1
amd64 change and administer password and group data
root@ubuntu:~# dpkg -l | grep selinux
ii libselinux1:amd64 2.7-2build2
amd64 SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii python3-selinux 2.7-2build2
amd64 Python3 bindings to SELinux shared libraries
ii selinux-basics 0.5.6
all SELinux basic support
ii selinux-policy-default 2:2.20180114-1
all Strict and Targeted variants of the SELinux policy
ii selinux-policy-dev 2:2.20180114-1
all Headers from the SELinux reference policy for building modules
ii selinux-utils 2.7-2build2
amd64 SELinux utility programs
root@ubuntu:~# uname -a
Linux ubuntu 4.15.0-20-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 24 06:16:15 UTC 2018
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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