From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751760AbWHSQD0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:03:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751761AbWHSQD0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:03:26 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:65421 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751760AbWHSQDZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:03:25 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 09:03:22 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Cc: , Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] proc: Make the generation of the self symlink table driven. Message-Id: <20060819090322.1b991a33.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <1155665132774-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <20060819010656.e169c3b7.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:07:37 -0600 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > Andrew Morton writes: > > > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:05:27 -0600 > > "Eric W. Biederman" wrote: > > > >> By not rolling our own inode we get a little more code reuse, > >> and things get a little simpler and we don't have special > >> cases to contend with later. > > > > On a standard FC5 install (which has selinux enabled) things get very ugly. > > > > udev: MAKEDEV: mkdir: file exists > > > > followed by a stream of udev errors of various sorts and then an infinite > > loop of auditd complaints about klogd and "/" and tmpfs. Nothing makes it > > to logs because klogd itself is failing. > > I'm not feeling very generous today. I'm wondering what selinux bug > I have found now. Without selinux everything is fine on FC5. > > Any chance of a search through that patchset to see which patch selinux > trips on? > This one. "PATCH 4/7] proc: Make the generation of the self symlink table driven."