From: Johannes Segitz <jsegitz@suse.de>
To: selinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] selinux_restorecon: Do not exit on directory cycles
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:55:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <amHW-fFHM3pw-g3y@suse.com> (raw)
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All other failures are handled gracefully. Directory cycles can e.g.
happen on BTRFS filesystems with subvolumes. Skip them and continue
instead of exiting
---
libselinux/src/selinux_restorecon.c | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/libselinux/src/selinux_restorecon.c b/libselinux/src/selinux_restorecon.c
index 30f1b836..fdefc92c 100644
--- a/libselinux/src/selinux_restorecon.c
+++ b/libselinux/src/selinux_restorecon.c
@@ -1393,15 +1393,14 @@ static void *selinux_restorecon_thread(void *arg)
if (is_dir) {
if (descend && walk_is_cycle(state, ent_sb.st_dev,
ent_sb.st_ino)) {
- selinux_log(SELINUX_ERROR,
+ selinux_log(SELINUX_WARNING,
"Directory cycle on %s.\n",
ent_path);
close(ent_fd);
- close(rd_fd);
- errno = ELOOP;
- state->error = -1;
- state->abort = true;
- goto finish;
+ if (rd_fd >= 0)
+ close(rd_fd);
+ prune_pathbuf(state);
+ continue;
}
if (state->sfsb.f_type == SYSFS_MAGIC &&
--
2.55.0
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-23 8:55 Johannes Segitz [this message]
2026-07-23 14:55 ` [PATCH] selinux_restorecon: Do not exit on directory cycles Stephen Smalley
2026-07-23 15:21 ` Johannes Segitz
2026-07-23 15:38 ` Stephen Smalley
2026-07-23 15:42 ` Johannes Segitz
2026-07-24 15:29 ` Stephen Smalley
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2026-07-21 7:17 Johannes Segitz
2026-07-21 13:54 ` Stephen Smalley
2026-07-21 15:15 ` Johannes Segitz
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