Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 1 Apr 2005 12:35:20 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix SELinux for removal of i_sock |
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On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:06:37 -0500 Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> 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 <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> > Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
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