linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3][try 1] init: enable system-on-initramfs

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0707191921230.3442@be1.lrz>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:22:43 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
To:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>
cc:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3][try 1] init: enable system-on-initramfs

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Stephen Smalley wrote:

> Not wanting to get into any flamewars here about selinux, but just FYI:
> security_sb_post_mountroot is obsolete and can be removed without harm
> to selinux; it is a leftover of selinux before we moved the initial
> policy load to userspace.  These days, initial policy load is done
> by /sbin/init in most distros that support selinux, although I'd prefer
> to do it earlier from the initramfs (the Fedora folks didn't like that
> idea though at the time, so /sbin/init got patched instead - but that
> was back in 2003, so maybe things have changed).

Thanks, that information will help a lot.
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