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

Matthew Booth mbooth at redhat.com
Wed Aug 12 15:49:00 UTC 2009


On 12/08/09 16:48, 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)?

It adds another command line option to be maintained and documented.

Matt
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