problem relabeling with FC2

Stephen Smalley sds at epoch.ncsc.mil
Wed Jun 16 14:22:11 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 10:08, Ismail Iyigunler wrote:
> Hi
> 
> But there are some directories and files shown as "(null)". like /lost+found 
> or /sys. Is this normal?

For /sys, yes.  /lost+found should have a visible context, assuming it
is on a filesystem that supports them (e.g. ext3).  See
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-selinux-list/2004-June/msg00004.html

> There's no AVC messages shown for it, also in /var/log/messages, and this 
> happens both in enforcing and permissive mode.

The kernel internally has a context for the inode, but it isn't exported
to userspace due to the lack of an xattr handler.

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds at epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency




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