netdev - Re: [E1000-devel] networking probs in next-20081203

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Message-Id: <20081204.102138.123959105.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:21:38 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sds@...ho.nsa.gov
Cc:	adobriyan@...il.com, auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com, jmorris@...ei.org,
	eparis@...isplace.org
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] networking probs in next-20081203

From: Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:11:20 -0500

> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 20:52 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:41:24AM -0800, Kok, Auke wrote:
> > > maybe try disabling selinux?
> > 
> > This will work. :^)
> 
> SELinux didn't change here.  /proc/net did.

We've been through this before...

And it is a usability issue that people can't change how procfs
directories work without requiring the user to update their selinux
policies first.
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