Re: [PATCH 0/6] Drop legacy boolean/users support (setlocaldefs)

[Joshua Brindle <method@manicmethod.com>]

Stephen Smalley wrote:
> The following patch series completely removes the legacy support for
> local boolean and user definitions (setlocaldefs) from libsepol and
> libselinux and updates libsemanage and policycoreutils for the resulting
> interface changes and removals.  As such, it requires bumping the .so
> versions, which has already been done on the policyrep branch (and these
> patches are therefore intended to be applied there first, and then
> merged to trunk later along with the policyrep work).
>
>   
Hrm, it doesn't seem appropriate to merge things entirely unrelated to 
the policyrep branch into that branch just because the soversion was 
bumped there. Karl, what do you think about this?

> The preservebools support is left temporarily intact since the
> corresponding kernel support for automatically preserving booleans
> across policy reload is not yet in a released kernel.org kernel.
>
> The complete diffstat for all 6 patches is:
>
>  libselinux/include/selinux/selinux.h             |   10 
>  libselinux/man/man3/security_load_booleans.3     |   22 -
>  libselinux/man/man3/selinux_binary_policy_path.3 |    5 
>  libselinux/man/man3/selinux_booleans_path.3      |    1 
>  libselinux/src/booleans.c                        |  213 ---------------
>  libselinux/src/file_path_suffixes.h              |    2 
>  libselinux/src/load_policy.c                     |   23 -
>  libselinux/src/selinux_config.c                  |   41 --
>  libselinux/src/selinux_internal.h                |    3 
>  libselinux/src/selinuxswig.i                     |    6 
>  libsemanage/src/booleans_activedb.c              |    2 
>  libsepol/man/man3/sepol_genbools.3               |   16 -
>  libsepol/man/man3/sepol_genusers.3               |   54 ---
>  libsepol/man/man8/genpolbools.8                  |   16 -
>  libsepol/man/man8/genpolusers.8                  |   42 ---
>  libsepol/src/genbools.c                          |  179 -------------
>  libsepol/src/genusers.c                          |  315 -----------------------
>  libsepol/src/libsepol.map                        |    4 
>  policycoreutils/audit2why/audit2why.c            |   14 -
>  policycoreutils/setsebool/setsebool.c            |    2 
>  20 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 935 deletions(-)
>
>   


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