Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 May 2006 15:53:20 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 11/14] Reworked patch for labels on user space messages |
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On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:40:19AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 5/3/06, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote: > >On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:11:52AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > >> Something seems to be wrong in selinux_get_task_sid. I am getting > >> thousands of these and can't boot the kernel. > > > >It's actually in security/selinux/hooks.c::selinux_disable() and gets > >triggered if you have selinux enabled and explicitly disable afterwards. > >Stephen Smalley had done a fix yesterday, basically adding > > selinux_enabled = 0; > >after > > selinux_disabled = 1; > >in there. selinux_get_task_sid() happens to step on that in visible way > >and nobody had caught that while this stuff was sitting in -mm ;-/ > > > >The only question I have about that patch: what would happen if we do not > >have CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_BOOTPARAM? In that case selinux_enabled is > >defined to 1, so... > > I have these config options set: > > CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX=y > CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_BOOTPARAM=y > CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_BOOTPARAM_VALUE=1 > CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_DISABLE=y > CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_DEVELOP=y > CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_AVC_STATS=y > CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_CHECKREQPROT_VALUE=1 > > SELinux needs to be built in or FC5 won't run.
Then add the assignment above (selinux_enabled = 0;) in selinux_disable() and see if that fixes your problem. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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