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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:07:37 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
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Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] selinux: Fix MLS compatibility off-by-one bug
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Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
>
> This patch fixes an off-by-one error in the MLS compatibility code
> that was causing contexts with a MLS suffix to be rejected, preventing
> sharing partitions between FC4 and FC5.  Bug reported in  
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188068
> Please apply, for 2.6.17 if possible.

Is this appropriate to 2.6.16.x?