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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2009-02-12 15:01:10 -0500
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2009-02-14 09:22:27 +1100
commit4ba0a8ad63e12a03ae01c039482967cc496b9174 (patch)
tree340aa55aa98cc42c33cff4297f0813f14f46b121 /security/selinux
parent200ac532a4bc3134147ca06686c56a6420e66c46 (diff)
SELinux: better printk when file with invalid label found
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@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/selinux')
-rw-r--r--security/selinux/hooks.c17
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index e9011e5f5ff..aebcfad5613 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -1315,10 +1315,19 @@ 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;