From: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmorris@namei.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] selinux: Disable automatic labeling of new inodes when no policy is loaded
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:59:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1140641973.31467.293.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060222123949.29a5cd2e.akpm@osdl.org>
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 12:39 -0800, 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?
Motivated by:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=180296
The effect is simply that if you boot with SELinux enabled but no policy
loaded and create a file in that state, SELinux won't try to set a
security extended attribute on the new inode on the disk. This is the
only sane behavior for SELinux in that state, as it cannot determine the
right label to assign in the absence of a policy. That state usually
doesn't occur, but the rawhide installer seemed to be misbehaving
temporarily so it happened to show up on a test install.
--
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-22 20:54 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
2006-02-22 20:59 ` Stephen Smalley [this message]
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