linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: Remove remainders of reiserfs

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Message-ID: <CAHC9VhRFzL8gCj-dNmrgTLg137boMo+-4YJ7wOwATiEnwKa_4A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:04:19 -0400
From: Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
To: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@...il.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, 
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@...hat.com>, selinux@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: Remove remainders of reiserfs

On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM Stephen Smalley
<stephen.smalley.work@...il.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 6:04 AM David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com> wrote:
> >
> > Reiserfs has been removed in 6.13, there are still some mentions in the
> > documentation about it and the tools. Remove those that don't seem
> > relevant anymore but keep references to reiserfs' r5 hash used by some
> > code.
> >
> > There's one change in a script scripts/selinux/install_policy.sh but it
> > does not seem to be relevant either.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>
> > ---
>
> > diff --git a/scripts/selinux/install_policy.sh b/scripts/selinux/install_policy.sh
> > index db40237e60ce7e..77368a73f11171 100755
> > --- a/scripts/selinux/install_policy.sh
> > +++ b/scripts/selinux/install_policy.sh
> > @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ cd /etc/selinux/dummy/contexts/files
> >  $SF -F file_contexts /
> >
> >  mounts=`cat /proc/$$/mounts | \
> > -       grep -E "ext[234]|jfs|xfs|reiserfs|jffs2|gfs2|btrfs|f2fs|ocfs2" | \
> > +       grep -E "ext[234]|jfs|xfs|jffs2|gfs2|btrfs|f2fs|ocfs2" | \
> >         awk '{ print $2 '}`
> >  $SF -F file_contexts $mounts
> >
>
> Just commenting on the selinux part, this entire list of filesystem
> types could likely be removed and replaced by just running "fixfiles
> relabel" instead, which on modern kernels (>= 2.6.30) will check for
> the "seclabel" option in /proc/self/mounts entries to determine which
> filesystems support security labeling.

... but in the meantime this patch looks fine.

Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>

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