On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:40:19AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 5/3/06, Al Viro <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:11:52AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> >> Something seems to be wrong in selinux_get_task_sid. I am getting
> >> thousands of these and can't boot the kernel.
> >
> >It's actually in security/selinux/hooks.c::selinux_disable() and gets
> >triggered if you have selinux enabled and explicitly disable afterwards.
> >Stephen Smalley had done a fix yesterday, basically adding
> > selinux_enabled = 0;
> >after
> > selinux_disabled = 1;
> >in there. selinux_get_task_sid() happens to step on that in visible way
> >and nobody had caught that while this stuff was sitting in -mm ;-/
> >
> >The only question I have about that patch: what would happen if we do not
> >have CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_BOOTPARAM? In that case selinux_enabled is
> >defined to 1, so...
>
> I have these config options set:
>
> CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX=y
> CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_BOOTPARAM=y
> CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_BOOTPARAM_VALUE=1
> CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_DISABLE=y
> CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_DEVELOP=y
> CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_AVC_STATS=y
> CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_CHECKREQPROT_VALUE=1
>
> SELinux needs to be built in or FC5 won't run.
Then add the assignment above (selinux_enabled = 0;) in selinux_disable()
and see if that fixes your problem.
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