Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:10:27 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: Regression introduced by bfcfaa77bdf0f775263e906015982a608df01c76 (vfs: use 'unsigned long' accesses for dcache name comparison and hashing) |
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On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 04:03:45PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote: > Reverting this patch also fixed the spurious ENOENT problems (and > related boot failures) from SELinux. > > Easy reproducer with SELinux enabled (although might I suggest > permissive/enforcing=0 since the box can't boot otherwise): > > compute_create system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0 > system_u:object_r:init_exec_t:s0 process > > If you get back system_u:object_r:init_exec_t:s0 it failed and you'll > see under strace the ENOENT stat() failure. > > If you get back system_u:object_r:init_t:s0 it means it worked...
Unless I'm misreading that code, the problem should hit on names with length being a multiple of 8...
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