Re: SELinux Kernel Oops

From: Greg KH (gregat_private)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 15:00:35 PST

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    On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 05:44:27PM -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
    > 
    > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, James W Carter wrote:
    > 
    > > I found a problem with SELinux on a 2.5.44 kernel generating a kernel Oops when
    > > running nfsd.
    > 
    > Just to clarify, the issue exists in both 2.4.19 and 2.5.44, and it is
    > relevant to the LSM patch, not just SELinux.  Without these patches,
    > private file structs will have NULL security fields.  We'd like to commit
    > these patches to the LSM BitKeeper trees as well.
    
    Shouldn't you also fix SELinux to handle NULL security fields :)
    
    And wouldn't the proliferation of different fs types in 2.5 make this
    patch a bit bigger?
    
    thanks,
    
    greg k-h
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