From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] selinux: Disable automatic labeling of new inodes when no policy is loaded
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:55:02 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602221551380.31473@excalibur.intercode> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060222123949.29a5cd2e.akpm@osdl.org>
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
> >
> > This patch disables the automatic labeling of new inodes on disk
> > when no policy is loaded. Please apply.
>
> What is the reason for this change, and what will its effects be?
Discussion is here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=180296
In short, we're changing the behavior so that when no policy is loaded,
SELinux does not label files at all. Currently it does add an 'unlabeled'
label in this case, which we've found causes problems later.
SELinux always maintains a safe internal label if there is none, so with
this patch, we just stick with that and wait until a policy is loaded
before adding a persistent label on disk.
- James
--
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-22 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-22 19:36 [patch 1/1] selinux: Disable automatic labeling of new inodes when no policy is loaded Stephen Smalley
2006-02-22 20:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-22 20:55 ` James Morris [this message]
2006-02-22 20:59 ` Stephen Smalley
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