linux-kernel - Re: SELinux change in 3.13 causes sync hang

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Date:	Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:35:44 -0500
From:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
To:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
Cc:	Anand Avati <avati@...hat.com>, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SELinux change in 3.13 causes sync hang

On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 15:25 -0500, Eric Paris wrote:

> I'll try to write a patch to fix that logic...

Anand,

How about something like (untested but it compiles):

diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/services.c b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
index ee470a0..2b437fc8 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/services.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
@@ -2349,9 +2359,17 @@ int security_fs_use(struct super_block *sb)
 		if (strncmp(fstype, c->u.name, baselen))
 			continue;
 
-		/* if there is no subtype, this is the one! */
-		if (!subtype)
-			break;
+		/* current mount has no subtype */
+		if (!subtype) {
+			/*
+			 * if there is no subtype in policy this is our match
+			 * if there is a subtype in policy keep looking,
+			 */
+			if (baselen == strlen(c->u.name))
+				break;
+			else
+				continue;
+		}
 
 		/* skip past the base in this entry */
 		sub = c->u.name + baselen;


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