Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: SMACK or SELinux, but not both | From | Stephen Smalley <> | Date | Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:39:36 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 20:28 +1100, James Morris wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > If SELinux is registered before SMACK, SMACK panics after > > register_security() call. > > > > If SMACK is registered before SELinux, SELinux panics after > > register_security() call. > > > > Consequently allmodconfig kernel doesn't boot. It would be nice if > > some Kconfig magic to exclude each other will be in place. > > People want to be able to select the security model at boot time, so the > option to build both LSMs is required. > > You can stop SELinux from attempting to register as an LSM via selinux=0, > which should allow you to boot with just Smack enabled.
Ideally, one could just boot with security=<module> to select the desired primary security module. security=smack, security=selinux, or security=capability.
Having to specify selinux=0 smack=0 foo=0 just to get bar wouldn't be pretty. Not that anyone would want to do that, of course...
-- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency
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