From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <43454D9F.7000109@tresys.com> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:15:27 -0400 From: Joshua Brindle MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Smalley CC: SELinux List Subject: Re: [PATCH] permission value inconsistency References: <1128436261.28919.6.camel@twoface.columbia.tresys.com> <1128528046.24059.195.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> In-Reply-To: <1128528046.24059.195.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Stephen Smalley wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 10:31 -0400, Joshua Brindle wrote: > >>These patches fix permission and common permission values being >>incremented before they were successfully added. This may cause an >>inconsistency in the policy in the error case. > > > Isn't the error case fatal anyway? > Yes, the error case is fatal but there may be a possibility of an invalid free when destroying the policydb and it certainly doesn't hurt anything to keep the policydb consistent an an error case. Joshua -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.