Re: [PATCH] Fix SELinux for removal of i_sock

On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:06:37 -0500
Stephen Smalley <[email protected]> wrote:

> This patch against -bk eliminates the use of i_sock by SELinux as it
> appears to have been removed recently, breaking the build of SELinux in
> -bk.  Simply replacing the i_sock test with an S_ISSOCK test would be
> unsafe in the SELinux code, as the latter will also return true for the
> inodes of socket files in the filesystem, not just the actual socket
> objects IIUC.  Hence this patch reworks the SELinux code to avoid the
> need to apply such a test in the first place, part of which was
> obsoleted anyway by earlier changes to SELinux.  Please apply.
> 
> Signed-off-by:  Stephen Smalley <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by:  James Morris <[email protected]>

Applied, thanks Stephen.
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