Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/5] tools/hotplug: move XENSTORED_MOUNT_CTX to sysconfig.xencommons

[Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 05, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Olaf Hering writes ("Re: [PATCH 1/5] tools/hotplug: move XENSTORED_MOUNT_CTX 
> to sysconfig.xencommons"):
> > On Fri, Dec 05, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > This patch looks like just the hook.  It seems to be missing the part
> > > where the actual selinux context is defined and plumbed through.
> > 
> > The context in xen source is "none". As asked in the cover letter (which
> > unfortunately got send to just Konrad and xen-devel, no idea how to fix
> > that) a configure --with-something may be the way to inject it into the
> > sources, if required.
> 
> I confess I don't know very much about selinux, but shouldn't we be
> providing a reasonable default policy, rather than leaving it to the
> distro or user to pass special options to configure ?  Or are things
> in the selinux world so fragmented or fast-moving that such a generic
> policy couldn't be written ?

I know nothing about SELinux.  Not sure why a context= is required
anyway.  But I can find out next week if noone else has an idea how to
deal with SELinux.

Olaf

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