GPU devices have wrong SELinux context after each server restart
Issue
- After each restart GPU devices have wrong SELinux context and can't be used as a consequence without restoring the context with restorecon.
$ ls -Z /dev/nvi*
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:xserver_misc_device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia0
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:xserver_misc_device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia1
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia2
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia3
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia4
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia5
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia6
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia7
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:xserver_misc_device_t:s0 /dev/nvidiactl
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:xserver_misc_device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia-modeset
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia-uvm
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia-uvm-tools
- instead of the right contexts, which are set after running restorecon.
$ ls -Z /dev/nvi*
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:xserver_misc_device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia0
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:xserver_misc_device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia1
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:xserver_misc_device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia2
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:xserver_misc_device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia3
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:xserver_misc_device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia4
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:xserver_misc_device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia5
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:xserver_misc_device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia6
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:xserver_misc_device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia7
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:xserver_misc_device_t:s0 /dev/nvidiactl
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:xserver_misc_device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia-modeset
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:xserver_misc_device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia-uvm
crw-rw-rw-. root root system_u:object_r:xserver_misc_device_t:s0 /dev/nvidia-uvm-tools
Environment
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 3.11 and 4.x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.x
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