From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can't remount loopback ext4 without /etc/mtab
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:06:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110725090624.GU22568@nb.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110724195713.GH3469@thunk.org>
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 03:57:13PM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 07:09:47PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
> >
> > When the error occurs, dmesg says:
> > [ 5495.860391] EXT4-fs (loop0): Unrecognized mount option "seclabel"
> > or missing value
> >
> > Here is the corresponding entry from /proc/mounts:
> > /dev/loop0 /home/dsd/tmpdisk/mountpt ext4
> > rw,seclabel,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
> >
> > Is this a util-linux bug? Or an ext4 issue?
mount(8) "bug"
The kernel does not accept any SELinux specific mount options for
MS_REMOUNT. We already have exception for this in mount(8) ... and I
hate it, but our SELunux kernel guys are happy with this strange
behavior:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563267#c9
> Personally, I find my life has been much happier since I gave up on
> SELinux as being too complicated to be secure.
+1
Karel
--
Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
http://karelzak.blogspot.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-25 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-24 18:09 Can't remount loopback ext4 without /etc/mtab Daniel Drake
2011-07-24 19:57 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-07-24 22:46 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2011-07-25 9:06 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2011-07-25 9:20 ` Daniel Drake
2011-07-25 9:46 ` Karel Zak
2011-07-26 19:29 ` Daniel Drake
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