selinux errors on HP ILO devices
Issue
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Getting following error messages in syslog:
Jan 17 13:57:10 hostname setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing ethtool (ifconfig_t) "read write" access to device /dev/hpilo/d0ccb7.
Permissions on /dev/hpilo/* are as follows:
$ ls -lZ /dev/hpilo/
crw------- root root system_u:object_r:device_t d0ccb0
crw------- root root system_u:object_r:device_t d0ccb1
crw------- root root system_u:object_r:device_t d0ccb2
crw------- root root system_u:object_r:device_t d0ccb3
crw------- root root system_u:object_r:device_t d0ccb4
crw------- root root system_u:object_r:device_t d0ccb5
crw------- root root system_u:object_r:device_t d0ccb6
crw------- root root system_u:object_r:device_t d0ccb7
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6
- HP system with ILO hardware
- selinux policy packages prior to
selinux-policy-2.4.6-316.el5
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