[Libguestfs] [PATCH] Allow selinux=? and enforcing=? kernel flags to be controlled

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Aug 12 16:22:27 UTC 2009


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 04:48:03PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 04:32:48PM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
> > On 12/08/09 16:22, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >> This is a pretty uncontroversial patch which just allows the
> >> selinux=? and enforcing=? flags on the kernel command line
> >> to be controlled.
> >>
> >> Currently libguestfs unconditionally passes selinux=0.  By default
> >> this patch does the same thing, but allows programs to enable SELinux
> >> in the kernel and/or set it to enforcing mode.
> >
> > Patch looks ok except that we shouldn't include the enforcing flag. I  
> > can't conceive of any reason we'd want SELinux in enforcing mode in the  
> > appliance. If selinux=1, then assume enforcing=0.
> 
> Does it do any harm (now that I've written the code anyway)?

OK, I'm going to push this _without_ the enforcing part (except that
if selinux=1 it will always set enforcing=0).

Rich.

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