[redhat-lspp] cannot mount filesystem with category list in context

[Daniel J Walsh]

Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 23:47 -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was playing with mounting filesystems specifying a context to the
>> mount command, and came across this limitation:
>>
>> # mount -o loop,context=root:object_r:root_t:s0:c1,c4 foo /mnt
>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
>>        missing codepage or other error
>>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>>        dmesg | tail  or so
>>
>> On the other hand, this works:
>>
>> # mount -o loop,context=root:object_r:root_t:s0:c1.c4 foo /mnt
>> #
>>
>> The "c1,c4" part of the context in the 1st command above is probably
>> being misinterpeted by the mount command, which uses comma to separate
>> options. Thus, it must be seeing a separate "c4" option to the
>> filesystem which is false. Is there a way to work around this?
>>     
>
> See:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=selinux&m=115944972832553&w=2
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=selinux&m=115944972813825&w=2
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=selinux&m=115944972820896&w=2
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=selinux&m=115944975417952&w=2
>
> The kernel patch was upstreamed.  Dan, did the mount and nfsmount patch
> get included into Fedora and RHEL?  If not, they need to be.
>
>   
Please open a bugzilla on these.  As we need bugzilla's in order to get 
these updates into the release.
Please cc me on the bugzilla.