From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] don't panic if /sbin/init exits or killed
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:41:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080318154134.GA3493@tv-sign.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1205850955.6466.61.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil>
On 03/18, Stephen Smalley wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 18:54 +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > If the buggy init exits, the kernel panics. I see no point for this. It is very
> > possible that the system is still usable enough, at least to read the logs and
> > prepare the bug report.
>
> At present, init with SELinux support will exit with an error status if
> it cannot successfully load the initial policy if the system is in
> enforcing mode, with the expectation that the kernel will then panic.
>
> We might argue about whether that is correct (having it explicitly halt
> makes more sense to me, but I didn't write the init patch), but it has
> been the behavior in Fedora and Debian for quite some time.
OK, thanks. It's a pity ;)
Please ignore this patch then.
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-19 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-16 15:54 Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-16 22:19 ` Roland McGrath
2008-03-16 22:54 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-03-16 23:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-16 22:55 ` Alan Cox
2008-03-16 23:32 ` Roland McGrath
2008-03-16 23:49 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-16 23:59 ` Roland McGrath
2008-03-17 0:05 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <1205850955.6466.61.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil>
2008-03-18 15:41 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2008-03-29 5:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-29 10:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
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2008-03-18 17:41 ` Bodo Eggert
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