linux-kernel - Re: noisy selinux messages on tmpfs mount.

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Date:	Fri, 09 Jan 2015 15:55:37 -0500
From:	Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
Cc:	Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley@...il.com>,
	selinux <selinux@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ch.ncsc.mil>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: noisy selinux messages on tmpfs mount.

On Friday, January 09, 2015 02:13:29 PM Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 08:06:49AM -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
>  > We already reduced that message to KERN_DEBUG.  Is that not sufficient?
> 
> That doesn't really help with the flooding of dmesg, so no.
> I should also note that it's not just logging in that creates a new
> session, it also seems to be getting triggered by cron jobs, or
> whatever the systemd replacement is.

I wonder if this is cron/systemd/whatever creating a new namespace and 
mounting a new tmpfs in the namespace?  If yes, I wonder if we could limit the 
messages to the initial namespace ... ?

-- 
paul moore
security @ redhat

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