From: Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com>
To: "Christian Göttsche" <cgzones@googlemail.com>, selinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] libselinux: avc_destroy(3) closes status page
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 15:53:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s3td73s.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210510105648.14635-2-cgzones@googlemail.com>
Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com> writes:
> Mention in the manpage of avc_destroy(3) that it does close the SELinux
> status page, which might have been opened manually by the client
> application.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
>
Acked-by: Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com>
> ---
> libselinux/man/man3/avc_open.3 | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/libselinux/man/man3/avc_open.3 b/libselinux/man/man3/avc_open.3
> index 3090dd50..55683bb6 100644
> --- a/libselinux/man/man3/avc_open.3
> +++ b/libselinux/man/man3/avc_open.3
> @@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ initializes the userspace AVC and must be called before any other AVC operation
> destroys the userspace AVC, freeing all internal memory structures. After this call has been made,
> .BR avc_open ()
> must be called again before any AVC operations can be performed.
> +.BR avc_destroy ()
> +also closes the SELinux status page, which might have been opened manually by
> +.BR selinux_status_open (3).
>
> .BR avc_reset ()
> flushes the userspace AVC, causing it to forget any cached access decisions. The userspace AVC normally calls this function automatically when needed, see
> --
> 2.31.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-01 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-10 10:56 [PATCH 0/3] libselinux: quirks of the status page Christian Göttsche
2021-05-10 10:56 ` [PATCH 1/3] libselinux: avc_destroy(3) closes " Christian Göttsche
2021-06-01 13:53 ` Petr Lautrbach [this message]
2021-05-10 10:56 ` [PATCH 2/3] libselinux: make selinux_status_open(3) reentrant Christian Göttsche
2021-06-01 13:53 ` Petr Lautrbach
2021-05-10 10:56 ` [PATCH 3/3] libselinux: do not use status page fallback mode internally Christian Göttsche
2021-06-01 14:13 ` Petr Lautrbach
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