linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.29-rc1 vs selinux

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Date:	Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:51:40 -0500
From:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>
To:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc1 vs selinux

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 03:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> One of the things that was bugging me was that after having booted 2.6.29-rc1, 
> rebooting to 2.6.28 final always caused an automatic relabel, which on this 
> box with a bit over a terrabyte in drives, takes an extra 20 minutes to do.
> 
> So I grepped the .config's and there is no mention of SELINUX in the output of 
> a make oldconfig for 2.6.29-rc1, based on a 2.6.28 .config input.
> 
> I see the security/selinux directory still exists in the src tree.  Is this a 
> kconfig bug, or is selinux outta here?

Can you post your .config file?
selinux depends on SECURITY_NETWORK && AUDIT && NET && INET

(possibly it should be using select instead of depends?)

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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