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From: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: systemd Mailing List <systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	SELinux-NSA <SELinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] selinux: Only attempt to load policy exactly once, in the real root
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 21:21:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140220212635.7EC19C007AB@frontend1.nyi.mail.srv.osa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACLa4psP63Q7YYMxVA1Ei6r6AmDSrCGn+=q0-ZFrawUF2apQMA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org> 
wrote:
> I think the idea was
> 
> if we are not in the initrd - try to load policy
> if we are in the initrd and we find selinux_path() - try to load 
> policy
> 
> Thus embeded/thin who put everything inside the initrd will work (and
> the kernel enforce=1 will mean what is should)
> And where we don't put anything inside the initrd will still be
> correct since we'll try to load no matter what in the real root
> 
I guess then as long as we don't attempt to load policy again if we 
already have done so in the initrd - and yes, systemd already has logic 
of this form inside selinux_setup().

I'm testing this suggested patch now.





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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-20 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-20 15:42 [PATCH] selinux: Only attempt to load policy exactly once, in the real root Colin Walters
2014-02-20 18:06 ` Stephen Smalley
2014-02-20 18:17   ` Colin Walters
2014-02-20 18:36     ` [systemd-devel] " Lennart Poettering
2014-02-20 18:47       ` Colin Walters
2014-02-20 18:50       ` Eric Paris
2014-02-20 19:26         ` Lennart Poettering
2014-02-20 19:27           ` Eric Paris
2014-02-20 19:45             ` Daniel J Walsh
2014-02-20 20:52               ` Colin Walters
2014-02-20 21:10                 ` Eric Paris
2014-02-20 21:21                   ` Colin Walters [this message]
2014-02-20 23:44                     ` Colin Walters
2014-02-21  2:33                       ` Lennart Poettering
2014-02-20 18:51     ` Stephen Smalley

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