linux-kernel - [PATCH] selinux: Chain up tool resolving errors in install

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Message-ID: <20250307095645.326982-1-tim.schumacher1@huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2025 10:56:43 +0100
From: Tim Schumacher <tim.schumacher1@...wei.com>
To: Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>, Stephen Smalley
	<stephen.smalley.work@...il.com>, Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@...hat.com>,
	Dominick Grift <dominick.grift@...ensec.nl>
CC: Tim Schumacher <tim.schumacher1@...wei.com>, Stephen Smalley
	<sds@...ho.nsa.gov>, <selinux@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] selinux: Chain up tool resolving errors in install_policy.sh

Subshell evaluations are not exempt from errexit, so if a command is
not available, `which` will fail and exit the script as a whole.
This causes the helpful error messages to not be printed if they are
tacked on using a `$?` comparison.

Resolve the issue by using chains of logical operators, which are not
subject to the effects of errexit.

Fixes: e37c1877ba5b1 ("scripts/selinux: modernize mdp")
Signed-off-by: Tim Schumacher <tim.schumacher1@...wei.com>
---
 scripts/selinux/install_policy.sh | 15 ++++++---------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/selinux/install_policy.sh b/scripts/selinux/install_policy.sh
index 24086793b0d8..db40237e60ce 100755
--- a/scripts/selinux/install_policy.sh
+++ b/scripts/selinux/install_policy.sh
@@ -6,27 +6,24 @@ if [ `id -u` -ne 0 ]; then
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-SF=`which setfiles`
-if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
+SF=`which setfiles` || {
 	echo "Could not find setfiles"
 	echo "Do you have policycoreutils installed?"
 	exit 1
-fi
+}
 
-CP=`which checkpolicy`
-if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
+CP=`which checkpolicy` || {
 	echo "Could not find checkpolicy"
 	echo "Do you have checkpolicy installed?"
 	exit 1
-fi
+}
 VERS=`$CP -V | awk '{print $1}'`
 
-ENABLED=`which selinuxenabled`
-if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
+ENABLED=`which selinuxenabled` || {
 	echo "Could not find selinuxenabled"
 	echo "Do you have libselinux-utils installed?"
 	exit 1
-fi
+}
 
 if selinuxenabled; then
     echo "SELinux is already enabled"
-- 
2.43.0