Re: [PATCH 4/4] SELinux: allow userspace to read policy back out of the kernel

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On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 12:37 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> There is interest in being able to see what the actual policy is that was
> loaded into the kernel.  The patch creates a new selinuxfs file
> /selinux/policy which can be read by userspace.  The actual policy that is
> loaded into the kernel will be written back out to userspace.

How do you expect this to be used?  As with /selinux/load, we can't use
coreutils utilities to manipulate it unfortunately.  Nor can we do
things like checkpolicy -b /selinux/policy since it doesn't support
mmap.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency


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