This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
selinux: Minor cleanups
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
selinux-minor-cleanups.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 57875eda8b84fcc466fad418ae0e42ad38ecdfd7
Author: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Nov 10 22:18:27 2016 +0100
selinux: Minor cleanups
commit 420591128cb206201dc444c2d42fb6f299b2ecd0 upstream.
Fix the comment for function __inode_security_revalidate, which returns
an integer.
Use the LABEL_* constants consistently for isec->initialized.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Grund <theflamefire89@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index eb503eccbacc..43f81db42169 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ static int inode_alloc_security(struct inode *inode)
isec->sid = SECINITSID_UNLABELED;
isec->sclass = SECCLASS_FILE;
isec->task_sid = sid;
+ isec->initialized = LABEL_INVALID;
inode->i_security = isec;
return 0;
@@ -247,7 +248,7 @@ static int inode_doinit_with_dentry(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *opt_dent
/*
* Try reloading inode security labels that have been marked as invalid. The
* @may_sleep parameter indicates when sleeping and thus reloading labels is
- * allowed; when set to false, returns ERR_PTR(-ECHILD) when the label is
+ * allowed; when set to false, returns -ECHILD when the label is
* invalid. The @opt_dentry parameter should be set to a dentry of the inode;
* when no dentry is available, set it to NULL instead.
*/
diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
index ef1226c1c3ad..a033306d14ee 100644
--- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
+++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
@@ -1301,7 +1301,7 @@ static int sel_make_bools(void)
goto out;
isec->sid = sid;
- isec->initialized = 1;
+ isec->initialized = LABEL_INITIALIZED;
inode->i_fop = &sel_bool_ops;
inode->i_ino = i|SEL_BOOL_INO_OFFSET;
d_add(dentry, inode);
@@ -1835,7 +1835,7 @@ static int sel_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
isec = (struct inode_security_struct *)inode->i_security;
isec->sid = SECINITSID_DEVNULL;
isec->sclass = SECCLASS_CHR_FILE;
- isec->initialized = 1;
+ isec->initialized = LABEL_INITIALIZED;
init_special_inode(inode, S_IFCHR | S_IRUGO | S_IWUGO, MKDEV(MEM_MAJOR, 3));
d_add(dentry, inode);
