Re: [PATCH 4/7] proc: Make the generation of the self symlink tabledriven.

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Aug 19 2006 - 12:00:48 EST


On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:07:37 -0600
ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:05:27 -0600
> > "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> By not rolling our own inode we get a little more code reuse,
> >> and things get a little simpler and we don't have special
> >> cases to contend with later.
> >
> > On a standard FC5 install (which has selinux enabled) things get very ugly.
> >
> > udev: MAKEDEV: mkdir: file exists
> >
> > followed by a stream of udev errors of various sorts and then an infinite
> > loop of auditd complaints about klogd and "/" and tmpfs. Nothing makes it
> > to logs because klogd itself is failing.
>
> I'm not feeling very generous today. I'm wondering what selinux bug
> I have found now. Without selinux everything is fine on FC5.
>
> Any chance of a search through that patchset to see which patch selinux
> trips on?
>

This one. "PATCH 4/7] proc: Make the generation of the self symlink table driven."
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