Currently when an inode is read into the kernel with an invalid label
string (can often happen with removable media) we output a string like:
SELinux: inode_doinit_with_dentry: context_to_sid([SOME INVALID LABEL])
returned -22 dor dev=[blah] ino=[blah]
Which is all but incomprehensible to all but a couple of us. Instead, on
EINVAL only, I plan to output a much more user friendly string and I plan to
ratelimit the printk since many of these could be generated very rapidly.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/selinux/hooks.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index e733fc1..45e286c 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -1335,10 +1335,19 @@ static int inode_doinit_with_dentry(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *opt_dent
sbsec->def_sid,
GFP_NOFS);
if (rc) {
- printk(KERN_WARNING "SELinux: %s: context_to_sid(%s) "
- "returned %d for dev=%s ino=%ld\n",
- __func__, context, -rc,
- inode->i_sb->s_id, inode->i_ino);
+ char *dev = inode->i_sb->s_id;
+ unsigned long ino = inode->i_ino;
+
+ if (rc == -EINVAL) {
+ if (printk_ratelimit())
+ printk(KERN_NOTICE "SELinux: inode=%lu on dev=%s was found to have an invalid "
+ "context=%s. This indicates you may need to relabel the inode or the "
+ "filesystem in question.\n", ino, dev, context);
+ } else {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "SELinux: %s: context_to_sid(%s) "
+ "returned %d for dev=%s ino=%ld\n",
+ __func__, context, -rc, dev, ino);
+ }
kfree(context);
/* Leave with the unlabeled SID */
rc = 0;
--
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