linux-kernel - Re: Selinux going crazy in 2.6.34-rc0

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Message-ID: <20100306174106.GC30031@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Sat, 6 Mar 2010 17:41:06 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Subject: Re: Selinux going crazy in 2.6.34-rc0

On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 09:27:27AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> > Interesting...  That smells like a selinux policy that needed recognition
> > of inotify file descriptors and got b0rken by
> > commit c44dcc56d2b5c79ba3063d20f76e5347e2e418f6
> > that switched inotify to use of anon_inodes.  Could you check if that's the
> > trigger?
> 
> Yep, that was it. With this commit reverted selinux stays quiet.
> Well, almost, it is never completely quiet ;).
> 
> Thank you Al.

Hrm...  Folks, does anybody have suggestions on what to do about that one?
I can revert that thing, of course, but I wonder what's really going on
in the policy that triggers that spew...
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