On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 14:19 +0100, Petr Lautrbach wrote: > When SELinux is disabled, semanage without -N fails with a quite > complicated > error message when it tries to reload a new policy. Since reload in > this case > doesn't make sense, we should probably try to avoid that. I haven't looked closely at this yet, but I know libsemanage itself internally sets ->do_reload to false if is_selinux_enabled() is 0 (or -1), so why is it that seobject.py is manually deciding whether to reload policy? > > Fixes: > $ sudo umount /sys/fs/selinux > > $ sudo semanage fcontext -a --type=postfix_local_tmp_t > /var/opt/01789667 > SELinux: Could not downgrade policy file > /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.31, searching for an older > version. > SELinux: Could not open policy file <= > /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.31: No such file or directory > /sbin/load_policy: Can't load policy: No such file or directory > libsemanage.semanage_reload_policy: load_policy returned error code > 2. (No such file or directory). > SELinux: Could not downgrade policy file > /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.31, searching for an older > version. > SELinux: Could not open policy file <= > /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.31: No such file or directory > /sbin/load_policy: Can't load policy: No such file or directory > libsemanage.semanage_reload_policy: load_policy returned error code > 2. (No such file or directory). > FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory > > Signed-off-by: Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > python/semanage/seobject.py | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/python/semanage/seobject.py > b/python/semanage/seobject.py > index 1385315f..37f2b8c6 100644 > --- a/python/semanage/seobject.py > +++ b/python/semanage/seobject.py > @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ class semanageRecords: > > def __init__(self, store): > global handle > - self.load = True > + self.load = selinux.is_selinux_enabled() > self.sh = self.get_handle(store) > > rc, localstore = selinux.selinux_getpolicytype() > @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ class semanageRecords: > self.mylog = nulllogger() > > def set_reload(self, load): > - self.load = load > + self.load = selinux.is_selinux_enabled() and load > > def get_handle(self, store): > global is_mls_enabled
