Re: [patch] SELinux: trivial, unify iterator variable naming, part 3

[Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>]

On Friday 25 July 2008 8:45:26 pm Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 00:47 +1000, James Morris wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 23:03 +1000, James Morris wrote:
> > > > Turns out it was caused by
> > > > CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_POLICYDB_VERSION_MAX_VALUE being set to
> > > > the default of 19.
> > > >
> > > > After setting it to 22 (same as the Fedora kernel), the problem
> > > > went away.
> > >
> > > Makes sense - policy.19 predates the avtab memory optimization
> > > work I did, and requires the policy toolchain to fully expand all
> > > attribute-based rules into individual type pairs.  So that shows
> > > how much memory we are saving from that particular optimization
> > > today.
> >
> > Should we bump that value so that kernel developers don't hit the
> > same problem if they have SELinux enabled?  (Many would assume the
> > boot hung).
>
> No - the whole point of that config option is to avoid breakage on
> Fedora 3 and 4, as noted in the help text.  And the option on which
> it depends defaults to n and thus shouldn't be enabled for anyone by
> default.
>
> As to whether or not we need to care about Fedora 3 and 4 anymore is
> perhaps a reasonable question; if not, then the entire option could
> go away.

I'm thinking of Andrew Morton's crufty old Fedora Core 2 laptop right 
now ...

-- 
paul moore
linux @ hp

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