fence_mpath watchdog script fails when SELinux is in Enforcing mode in a Red Hat High Availability cluster

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (with the High Availability Add-on)
• SELinux in Enforcing mode

Issue

• The watchdog script for fence_mpath fails if SELinux is set to Enforcing.

Resolution

The issue has been resolved by selinux-policy-3.13.1-252.el7 in RHBA-2019:2127.

Root Cause

Some of the files associated with the watchdog portion of the configuration do not have the appropriate SELinux context.

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