Re: SMACK or SELinux, but not both

[James Morris]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> If SELinux is registered before SMACK, SMACK panics after
> register_security() call.
> 
> If SMACK is registered before SELinux, SELinux panics after
> register_security() call.
> 
> Consequently allmodconfig kernel doesn't boot. It would be nice if
> some Kconfig magic to exclude each other will be in place.

People want to be able to select the security model at boot time, so the 
option to build both LSMs is required.

You can stop SELinux from attempting to register as an LSM via selinux=0, 
which should allow you to boot with just Smack enabled.


- James
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