[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] systemd v44

[Thierry Reding]

* Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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> On 03/19/2012 07:59 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > * Kay Sievers wrote:
> >> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 15:14, Koen Kooi
> >> <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Op 16 mrt. 2012, om 02:40 heeft Lennart Poettering het volgende
> >>> geschreven:
> >>> 
> >>>> Heya,
> >>>> 
> >>>> this is primarily a bugfix release (but does include a couple
> >>>> of new things) and might be very likely the version we'll
> >>>> ship in Fedora 17, unless there's some unforeseen bigger bug
> >>>> left to be fixed.
> >>>> 
> >>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/plain/NEWS 
> >>>> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/systemd-44.tar.xz
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> 
> I get the following error and warnings when crosscompiling for arm:
> >>> 
> >>> | src/journal/journald.c: In function 'process_event': |
> >>> src/journal/journald.c:2147:49: error: 'PAGE_SIZE' undeclared
> >>> (first use in this function)
> >> 
> >> PATH_MAX might be simpler to use here.
> > 
> > Exactly how long are SELinux labels allowed to be? I couldn't find
> > any related constants in any of the headers on my system.
> > Alternatively, maybe a more portable way would be to use
> > sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) here?
> 
> Right now they are unlimited, but we are having discussions with
> upstream about potentially picking a limit of around 2k.

What is the time frame for this?

> I have been able to generate a worse case label of just over 5k, in
> userspace, but this would be limited to around 2k if coming from the
> kernel.
> 
> In NON-MlS world, SELinux labels would never be longer then 100 chars.

In the meantime maybe some constant known to be an absolute maximum should be
chosen. I don't know if the typical page-size of 4K would be enough given
that you've been able to generate one that is larger. 8K on the other hand
seems way too much.

Thierry
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