Why RHEL 5 system crashes at "avc_has_perm_noaudit" ?

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • System crashes at "avc_has_perm_noaudit" with follwoing call traces:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000000901312c RIP: 
 [<ffffffff80127153>] avc_has_perm_noaudit+0x22d/0x38a
PGD 3fc98bc067 PUD 0 
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP 
....
Pid: 17954, comm: java Tainted: G      2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff80127153>]  [<ffffffff80127153>] avc_has_perm_noaudit+0x22d/0x38a
....
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8008a7ec>] __wake_up_common+0x3e/0x68
 [<ffffffff80127d27>] avc_has_perm+0x29/0x58
 [<ffffffff80051222>] wake_futex+0x45/0x4f
 [<ffffffff8003e774>] do_futex+0x741/0xc3f
 [<ffffffff80128604>] inode_has_perm+0x56/0x63
 [<ffffffff801286a5>] file_has_perm+0x94/0xa3
 [<ffffffff8012b0d2>] selinux_file_permission+0x9f/0xb6
 [<ffffffff80016900>] vfs_write+0xa7/0x174
 [<ffffffff800171df>] sys_write+0x45/0x6e
 [<ffffffff8005d116>] system_call+0x7e/0x83

Code: f3 a5 83 7c 24 18 00 74 0f 8b 40 0c f7 d0 85 44 24 18 0f 84 
RIP  [<ffffffff80127153>] avc_has_perm_noaudit+0x22d/0x38a
 RSP <ffff813566f69cd8>

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4

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