Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 1/1] selinux: Disable automatic labeling of new inodes when no policy is loaded | From | Stephen Smalley <> | Date | Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:59:33 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 12:39 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote: > > > > This patch disables the automatic labeling of new inodes on disk > > when no policy is loaded. Please apply. > > > > What is the reason for this change, and what will its effects be?
Motivated by: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=180296
The effect is simply that if you boot with SELinux enabled but no policy loaded and create a file in that state, SELinux won't try to set a security extended attribute on the new inode on the disk. This is the only sane behavior for SELinux in that state, as it cannot determine the right label to assign in the absence of a policy. That state usually doesn't occur, but the rawhide installer seemed to be misbehaving temporarily so it happened to show up on a test install.
-- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency
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