What were you trying to do that didn't work?

Trying to set symlink in /etc/fstab for mounting at the time of boot

What is the impact of this issue to you?

The systemd service /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-fstab-generator is denied from read access on the lnk_file 

Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

Customer reported this on RHEL 8, I was able to reproduce it with RHEL 9libselinux-3.6-3.el9.x86_64
python3-libselinux-3.6-3.el9.x86_64
selinux-policy-38.1.53-5.el9_6.noarch
selinux-policy-targeted-38.1.53-5.el9_6.noarch
rpm-plugin-selinux-4.16.1.3-37.el9.x86_64
libselinux-utils-3.6-3.el9.x86_64
selinux-policy-devel-38.1.53-5.el9_6.noarch

How reproducible is this bug?:

100%

Steps to reproduce

1. Set mount directory on a path under a symlink in /etc/fstab
2. Reboot the system

Expected results

System should be able to mount the disk.

Actual results

Service fails to boot and results in a booting failure.