linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] SELinux Netlabel updates

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Message-Id: <200707172153.03670.paul.moore@hp.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:53:03 -0400
From:	Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] SELinux Netlabel updates

On Tuesday 17 July 2007 8:24:55 pm Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, James Morris wrote:
> > These are updated Netlabel/SELinux changes from Paul, reworked so that
> > they don't break userspace.  Michal says they work for him.  Please apply
> > for 2.6.23.
>
> They don't work AT ALL for me:
>
> 	security/selinux/ss/sidtab.o: In function `netlbl_enabled':
> 	sidtab.c:(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `netlbl_enabled'
> 	security/selinux/ss/ebitmap.o:ebitmap.c:(.text+0x0): first defined here
>
> Tssk.
>
> That dummy "netlbl_enabled()" should be "static inline", methinks.
>
> Also, that <net/netlabel.h> file has two blocks after each other of
>
> 	#ifdef CONFIG_NETLABEL
> 	..
> 	#else
> 	..
> 	#endif
>
> 	#ifdef CONFIG_NETLABEL
> 	..
> 	#else
> 	..
> 	#endif
>
> which might as well be cleaned up at the same time (and might have avoided
> this bug, since then the people involved would have seen the _correct_
> example in the first version)

Oh my.  I'll fix this and get another version out to James and Michal tomorrow 
morning; I have to spend the rest of the night smacking myself in the 
forehead.

-- 
paul moore
linux security @ hp
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