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SubjectRe: [PATCH 11/14] Reworked patch for labels on user space messages
I can boot again with this patch...

On 5/3/06, Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 15:28 +0100, Al Viro 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...
>
> Good point. Ok, take two.
>
> [patch 1/1] selinux: Clear selinux_enabled flag upon runtime disable.
>
> Clear selinux_enabled flag upon runtime disable of SELinux by userspace,
> and make sure it is defined even if selinux= boot parameter support is
> not enabled in configuration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
>
> ---
>
> security/selinux/hooks.c | 3 +++
> security/selinux/include/security.h | 5 -----
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff -X /home/sds/dontdiff -rup linux-2.6.17-rc3-mm1/security/selinux/hooks.c linux-2.6.17-rc3-mm1-x2/security/selinux/hooks.c
> --- linux-2.6.17-rc3-mm1/security/selinux/hooks.c 2006-05-02 09:08:02.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6.17-rc3-mm1-x2/security/selinux/hooks.c 2006-05-03 10:26:43.000000000 -0400
> @@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ static int __init selinux_enabled_setup(
> return 1;
> }
> __setup("selinux=", selinux_enabled_setup);
> +#else
> +int selinux_enabled = 1;
> #endif
>
> /* Original (dummy) security module. */
> @@ -4535,6 +4537,7 @@ int selinux_disable(void)
> printk(KERN_INFO "SELinux: Disabled at runtime.\n");
>
> selinux_disabled = 1;
> + selinux_enabled = 0;
>
> /* Reset security_ops to the secondary module, dummy or capability. */
> security_ops = secondary_ops;
> diff -X /home/sds/dontdiff -rup linux-2.6.17-rc3-mm1/security/selinux/include/security.h linux-2.6.17-rc3-mm1-x2/security/selinux/include/security.h
> --- linux-2.6.17-rc3-mm1/security/selinux/include/security.h 2006-03-20 00:53:29.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6.17-rc3-mm1-x2/security/selinux/include/security.h 2006-05-03 10:25:39.000000000 -0400
> @@ -29,12 +29,7 @@
> #define POLICYDB_VERSION_MIN POLICYDB_VERSION_BASE
> #define POLICYDB_VERSION_MAX POLICYDB_VERSION_AVTAB
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_BOOTPARAM
> extern int selinux_enabled;
> -#else
> -#define selinux_enabled 1
> -#endif
> -
> extern int selinux_mls_enabled;
>
> int security_load_policy(void * data, size_t len);
>
>
> --
> Stephen Smalley
> National Security Agency
>
>

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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