(SELinux) /dev/nvidia and /dev/nvidiactl are labelled incorrectly on Fedora 13

Dominor · 10-17-10, 06:34 PM

On Fedora Linux 13, whether one installs the nvidia driver through the official installer from nvidia or from the rpms provided by the rpmfusion fedora repository, the devices /dev/nvidia0 and /dev/nvidiactl are incorrectly labelled as system_u

bject_r:device_t:s0. Instead, they should be labelled as system_u

bject_r:xserver_misc_device_t:s0, as predefined in the installed selinux policy. This causes applications such as boinc based distributed computing projects to be unable to detect the nvidia graphics card and access its CUDA library.
This issue has already been reported by me and other users on rpmfusion and fedora bugzilla and no one seems to know how to create these two devices with the correct label, in order to allow read and write access to them.

Bug reports with more details:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595092
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596573
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1421

phil@elrepo · 11-21-10, 10:07 AM

Creating the following file should solve the issue:

/etc/udev/makedev.d/60-nvidia.nodes

Code:

nvidia0
nvidia1
nvidia2
nvidia3
nvidia4
nvidia5
nvidia6
nvidia7
nvidia8
nvidia9
nvidiactl

and allow the device nodes to be created with the correct SELinux security contexts.

11-21-10, 10:07 AM	#2
phil@elrepo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: UK Posts: 16	Re: (SELinux) /dev/nvidia and /dev/nvidiactl are labelled incorrectly on Fedora 13 Creating the following file should solve the issue: /etc/udev/makedev.d/60-nvidia.nodes Code: nvidia0 nvidia1 nvidia2 nvidia3 nvidia4 nvidia5 nvidia6 nvidia7 nvidia8 nvidia9 nvidiactl and allow the device nodes to be created with the correct SELinux security contexts. __________________ http://elrepo.org The Community Enterprise Linux Repository