From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at
Subject: Re: Selabel/selinux support in mtd-utils for ubifs
Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 23:26:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1707195.VuFK1zXW7D@blindfold> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d1fc48d2-ee16-2405-bf4d-a75ea8cd5f46@codeaurora.org>
Ritesh,
Am Montag, 21. Mai 2018, 13:47:53 CEST schrieb Ritesh Harjani:
> Hello all,
>
> Could anyone please help whether selinux support is fully present on
> ubifs or not?
>
> Below are my observations:-
> 1. Selinux support was added in ubifs kernel via below patch
> "UBIFS: Add security.* XATTR support for the UBIFS"
>
> 2. Extended attribute support was added in mtd-utils via below patch.
> "mkfs.ubifs: Add extended attribute support"
>
> With above I think that selinux could be enabled but only at the boot
> time using selinux tools.
Yes.
> But I could not see any support to add selinux labels/context
> information while creating ubifs.img in mtd-utils. I do see below link
> where something like above was tried but never made upstream. Could
> anyone please give pointers on whether this support is added/ or bring
> worked upon?
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2014-February/052136.html
>
> Also Whether selinux labeling support can be added in the mkfs.ubifs or
> not? Do we see any issues with this?
No, just revive the patches.
In 2014 the maintainer situation was different and sadly we forgot about some
patches.
> I would like to work upon adding selinux support in mtd-utils.
This would be wonderful!
> I would appreciate if I could get some pointers on above queries and if
> anyone has any pointers/suggestions for this.
Just go ahead. :-)
Thanks,
//richard
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2018-05-21 11:47 Selabel/selinux support in mtd-utils for ubifs Ritesh Harjani
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