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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>
Eric Paris 16 years ago
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1 changed files with 13 additions and 4 deletions
  1. 13 4
      security/selinux/hooks.c

+ 13 - 4
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;