Re: fsck.ext3 on bootup

[Russell Coker <russell coker com au>]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:19, Tom London <selinux gmail com> wrote:
> OK. I made a new initrd using mkinitrd-4.1.12-1, rebooted, but the
> result is the same.
>
> Sorry....  Anything else I can try?

It seems that a device node /dev/root is created when you boot from a non-LVM 
device.  This is probably a bug in the boot scripts which may tie in with the 
following bugzilla (about root= parameter being ignored in the case of LVM 
systems).

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133236

Anyway I have attached a policy patch that will work around the SE Linux 
aspects of this issue.

-- 
http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/   My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages
http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/  Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark
http://www.coker.com.au/postal/    Postal SMTP/POP benchmark
http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/  My home page

--- /usr/src/se/policy/file_contexts/types.fc	2004-09-24 06:31:25.000000000 +1000
+++ file_contexts/types.fc	2004-09-26 21:40:25.000000000 +1000
@@ -144,6 +140,9 @@
 /dev/par.*		-c	system_u:object_r:printer_device_t
 /dev/usb/lp.*		-c	system_u:object_r:printer_device_t
 /dev/usblp.*		-c	system_u:object_r:printer_device_t
+ifdef(`distro_redhat', `
+/dev/root		-b	system_u:object_r:fixed_disk_device_t
+')
 /u?dev/[shmx]d[^/]*	-b	system_u:object_r:fixed_disk_device_t
 /u?dev/dm-[0-9]+	-b	system_u:object_r:fixed_disk_device_t
 /u?dev/sg[0-9]+		-c	system_u:object_r:scsi_generic_device_t