Selinux and Reiserfs

[Dave Hawkes]

Thanks for the info, the patches seem to be kernel release specific and 
not so well tested. Maybe I'll just have to wait for reiser4 support...


Stephen Smalley wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 09:39, Dave Hawkes wrote:
>  
>
>>I thought I would try the latest development updates to see how the
>>selinux implementation is progressing, but was unable to relabel my
>>reiserfs drive.
>>
>>I changed the fs_use file to include reiserfs (fs_use_xattr reiserfs
>>system_u:object_r:fs_t) and also changed the makefile so awk would
>>identify reiserfs drives.
>>
>>However I still get the "Operation not supported" error from setfiles so
>>I assume the reiserfs selinux kernel patches (using kernel 2.6.0-1.41)
>>are not implemented? Does anyone know if that is the case?
>>    
>>
>
>reiserfs doesn't support extended attributes unless you patch in
>support, e.g. using Jeff Mahoney's patches from
>ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/jeffm/reiserfs/aclea/.  These patches do
>include a handler for the security namespace now, and a SELinux user has
>reported successfully assigning the SELinux labels using this code, but
>we have never tested it ourselves.
>
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