Bug ID 607716: Licensing causes SELinux denied messages for mcpd

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP Install/Upgrade(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
12.1.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 12.1.3.2, 12.1.3.3, 12.1.3.4, 12.1.3.5, 12.1.3.6, 12.1.3.7, 12.1.4, 12.1.4.1, 12.1.5, 12.1.5.1, 12.1.5.2, 12.1.5.3, 12.1.6

Fixed In:
13.0.0

Opened: Jul 28, 2016

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

After you apply a license, you see the following in /var/log/audit/auditd.log: type=AVC msg=audit(1469642592.548:489): avc: denied { relabelto } for pid=6908 comm="mcpd" name="bigip.license.chs600493s" dev=dm-10 ino=25 scontext=system_u:system_r:mcpd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0 tclass=file.

Impact

The errors are benign and can be safely ignored.

Conditions

This may be seen when licensing or during reactivation of a license.

Workaround

None needed. This is a cosmetic error.

Fix Information

Licensing no longer causes SELinux denied messages for mcpd.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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