Re: 2.6.29-rc1 vs selinux

From: Stephen Smalley
Date: Fri Jan 16 2009 - 08:55:53 EST


On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 03:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> One of the things that was bugging me was that after having booted 2.6.29-rc1,
> rebooting to 2.6.28 final always caused an automatic relabel, which on this
> box with a bit over a terrabyte in drives, takes an extra 20 minutes to do.
>
> So I grepped the .config's and there is no mention of SELINUX in the output of
> a make oldconfig for 2.6.29-rc1, based on a 2.6.28 .config input.
>
> I see the security/selinux directory still exists in the src tree. Is this a
> kconfig bug, or is selinux outta here?

Can you post your .config file?
selinux depends on SECURITY_NETWORK && AUDIT && NET && INET

(possibly it should be using select instead of depends?)

--
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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