[PATCH] selinux support on mkswap applet

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Fri Oct 19 21:48:16 UTC 2007


On Thursday 18 October 2007 11:41, KaiGai Kohei wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The attached patch enables to relabel the security context of
> regular files to "swapfile_t", when mkswap attempt to initialize
> a regular file as a swap.
> 
> The reason of this extension is that swapfile can store memory
> regions of any processes, and there is a possibility to leak
> unintentional infomation via swap using regular file.
> Therefore, we have to relabel swapfile to separate any other
> regular file.

Applied, thanks!
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vda



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