When SELinux support was first introduced the libselinux library wasn't that advanced and setfilecon_raw() or fsetfilecon_raw() could fail even when the target context was set. Looking at the current code [1][2] this is no longer the case. We can drop our workarounds. 1: https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/blob/master/libselinux/src/setfilecon.c#L10 2: https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/blob/master/libselinux/src/fsetfilecon.c#L10 Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/security/security_selinux.c | 22 ---------------------- 1 file changed, 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/security/security_selinux.c b/src/security/security_selinux.c index e05ef7593e..0bfb6a7fa6 100644 --- a/src/security/security_selinux.c +++ b/src/security/security_selinux.c @@ -1249,8 +1249,6 @@ virSecuritySELinuxSetFileconImpl(const char *path, const char *tcon, bool privileged) { - security_context_t econ; - /* Be aware that this function might run in a separate process. * Therefore, any driver state changes would be thrown away. */ @@ -1259,15 +1257,6 @@ virSecuritySELinuxSetFileconImpl(const char *path, if (setfilecon_raw(path, (const char *)tcon) < 0) { int setfilecon_errno = errno; - if (getfilecon_raw(path, &econ) >= 0) { - if (STREQ(tcon, econ)) { - freecon(econ); - /* It's alright, there's nothing to change anyway. */ - return 1; - } - freecon(econ); - } - /* If the error complaint is related to an image hosted on a (possibly * read-only) NFS mount, or a usbfs/sysfs filesystem not supporting * labelling, then just ignore it & hope for the best. The user @@ -1401,22 +1390,11 @@ virSecuritySELinuxSetFilecon(virSecurityManagerPtr mgr, static int virSecuritySELinuxFSetFilecon(int fd, char *tcon) { - security_context_t econ; - VIR_INFO("Setting SELinux context on fd %d to '%s'", fd, tcon); if (fsetfilecon_raw(fd, tcon) < 0) { int fsetfilecon_errno = errno; - if (fgetfilecon_raw(fd, &econ) >= 0) { - if (STREQ(tcon, econ)) { - freecon(econ); - /* It's alright, there's nothing to change anyway. */ - return 0; - } - freecon(econ); - } - /* if the error complaint is related to an image hosted on * an nfs mount, or a usbfs/sysfs filesystem not supporting * labelling, then just ignore it & hope for the best. -- 2.23.0 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list