[PATCH] policycoreutils/load_policy: Drop is_selinux_enabled() check

[PATCH] policycoreutils/load_policy: Drop is_selinux_enabled() check

[Luis Ressel]

This check is a remnant of the libselinux <2.5 era, back when
is_selinux_enabled() checked whether a policy had been loaded. Nowadays
it only checks whether selinuxfs is mounted, and "load_policy -i"
therefore incorrectly refuses operation when selinuxfs is mounted, but
no policy has been loaded yet.

While it doesn't make much sense to call selinux_init_load_policy()
twice, there's no harm in doing so either, so let's just drop this
safeguard instead of fixing it.
---
 policycoreutils/load_policy/load_policy.c | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/policycoreutils/load_policy/load_policy.c b/policycoreutils/load_policy/load_policy.c
index 7c2c2a7..2707d6f 100644
--- a/policycoreutils/load_policy/load_policy.c
+++ b/policycoreutils/load_policy/load_policy.c
@@ -65,13 +65,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 			argv[0], argv[optind++]);
 	}
 	if (init) {
-		if (is_selinux_enabled() == 1) {
-			/* SELinux is already enabled, we should not do an initial load again */
-			fprintf(stderr,
-					_("%s:  Policy is already loaded and initial load requested\n"),
-					argv[0]);
-			exit(2);
-		}
 		ret = selinux_init_load_policy(&enforce);
 		if (ret != 0 ) {
 			if (enforce > 0) {
-- 
2.12.2

Re: [PATCH] policycoreutils/load_policy: Drop is_selinux_enabled() check

[Stephen Smalley]

On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 14:05 +0200, Luis Ressel wrote:
> This check is a remnant of the libselinux <2.5 era, back when
> is_selinux_enabled() checked whether a policy had been loaded.
> Nowadays
> it only checks whether selinuxfs is mounted, and "load_policy -i"
> therefore incorrectly refuses operation when selinuxfs is mounted,
> but
> no policy has been loaded yet.
> 
> While it doesn't make much sense to call selinux_init_load_policy()
> twice, there's no harm in doing so either, so let's just drop this
> safeguard instead of fixing it.

Thanks, applied.

> ---
>  policycoreutils/load_policy/load_policy.c | 7 -------
>  1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/policycoreutils/load_policy/load_policy.c
> b/policycoreutils/load_policy/load_policy.c
> index 7c2c2a7..2707d6f 100644
> --- a/policycoreutils/load_policy/load_policy.c
> +++ b/policycoreutils/load_policy/load_policy.c
> @@ -65,13 +65,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>  			argv[0], argv[optind++]);
>  	}
>  	if (init) {
> -		if (is_selinux_enabled() == 1) {
> -			/* SELinux is already enabled, we should not
> do an initial load again */
> -			fprintf(stderr,
> -					_("%s:  Policy is already
> loaded and initial load requested\n"),
> -					argv[0]);
> -			exit(2);
> -		}
>  		ret = selinux_init_load_policy(&enforce);
>  		if (ret != 0 ) {
>  			if (enforce > 0) {