Why did SELinux stopping parent process from killing its child in RHEL6 ?

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Issue

  • SELinux is not allowing parent process from killing its child.

  • The avc states that varnished_t is not allowed kill permission.

Sep 22 02:24:08 <hostname> varnishd[29874]: Child (29875) not responding to CLI, killing it.
Sep 22 02:24:08 <hostname>  kernel: type=1400 audit(1379780648.671:51488): avc:  denied  { kill } for  pid=29874 comm="varnishd" capability=5  scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:varnishd_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:system_r:varnishd_t:s0 tclass=capability

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
  • selinux-policy-3.7.19-195.el6_4.12.noarch
  • selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-195.el6_4.12.noarch

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