mpv and kitty terminal emulator on Wayland
Russell Coker <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:35:41 +1000
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.selinux-refpolicy |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <1968598.tdWV9SEqCh@dojacat> |
When a paste operation is triggered (middle click on video window) mpv is
having it's file handle sent to kitty, presumably by the wayland system (KDE
in this case).
Denying this access can cause the source of the paste data (kitty in this
case) to crash. Here's the logs for kitty:
type=AVC msg=audit(1784959694.829:20780): avc: denied { use } for pid=4712
comm="kitty" path="pipe:[150412]" dev="pipefs" ino=150412
scontext=etbe:user_r:user_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=etbe:user_r:mplayer_t:s0-
s0:c0.c1023 tclass=fd permissive=0
type=AVC msg=audit(1784959694.861:20787): avc: denied { use } for pid=4282
comm="QThread" path="pipe:[149316]" dev="pipefs" ino=149316
scontext=etbe:user_r:user_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=etbe:user_r:mplayer_t:s0-
s0:c0.c1023 tclass=fd permissive=0
type=AVC msg=audit(1784959851.794:22406): avc: denied { use } for pid=17365
comm="kitty" path="pipe:[166960]" dev="pipefs" ino=166960
scontext=etbe:user_r:user_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=etbe:user_r:mplayer_t:s0-
s0:c0.c1023 tclass=fd permissive=0
type=AVC msg=audit(1784959851.822:22409): avc: denied { use } for pid=16312
comm="WaylandEventThr" path="pipe:[164719]" dev="pipefs" ino=164719
scontext=etbe:user_r:user_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=etbe:user_r:mplayer_t:s0-
s0:c0.c1023 tclass=fd permissive=0
type=AVC msg=audit(1784959876.318:22422): avc: denied { use } for pid=10585
comm="kitty" path="pipe:[165833]" dev="pipefs" ino=165833
scontext=etbe:user_r:user_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=etbe:user_r:mplayer_t:s0-
s0:c0.c1023 tclass=fd permissive=0
Here's the errors from Kitty:
file descriptor expected, object (52), message send(sh)
[7.945] [glfw error 65544]: Wayland: fatal display error: Invalid argument
Here's the errors from Konsole:
file descriptor expected, object (66), message send(sh)
The Wayland connection experienced a fatal error: Invalid argument
Here's the logs when the fd use is allowed:
type=AVC msg=audit(1784960913.928:24443): avc: denied { write } for
pid=25743 comm="WaylandEventThr" path="pipe:[188207]" dev="pipefs" ino=188207
scontext=etbe:user_r:user_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=etbe:user_r:mplayer_t:s0-
s0:c0.c1023 tclass=fifo_file permissive=0
type=AVC msg=audit(1784960913.964:24444): avc: denied { write } for
pid=24950 comm="QThread" path="pipe:[190614]" dev="pipefs" ino=190614
scontext=etbe:user_r:user_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=etbe:user_r:mplayer_t:s0-
s0:c0.c1023 tclass=fifo_file permissive=0
So it looks that for Wayland to work in the expected manner without programs
crashing all the time we need to allow every Wayland client domain to use a fd
from every other domain and to have fifo_file rw_inherited_fifo_file_perms
access.
Would it be possible to have a SE Linux aware clipboard program to mediate
this?
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