Re: linux-next: Tree for September 3

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Sep 04 2008 - 18:23:51 EST


On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:03:41 -0700
ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:31:01 -0700
> > ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> >
> >> >> are you sure it's a plain tree of mine, without any of the patches
> >> >> floating around between Eric/Al?
> >> >
> >> > yup, it's yesterday's mainline.
> >>
> >> Does the problem happen if you disable selinux?
> >>
> >> This feels like a case of selinux being over zealous.
> >
> > yeah, adding `selinux=0' to the boot command line fixes it.
>
> The proc generic directory back structure is the same. As requested by
> the selinux folks. So I don't expect there is much more we can do on
> the /proc side.
>
> When we get the interaction bug between the VFS and /proc/net fixed I wonder
> if there will be some more selinux fall out. Something to think about.

fyi, that machine is x86_32-on-FC5. My x86_64-on-FC6 test box is
also running selinux and has the same bug.
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