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bug#47324: AW: bug#47324: Missing information in documentation
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Bernhard Voelker |
Subject: |
bug#47324: AW: bug#47324: Missing information in documentation |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:00:21 +0100 |
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On 3/23/21 11:18 AM, Walter Harms via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
> In my case there was no security context involved.
> It was a loop device mounted (that i was not aware of,
> the image was already gone).
> and rm -r stoped here because of "in use".
>
> I expected some mentioning of mount somewhere.
According to the source code [1], the directory must have had a security
context set.
[1] https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/ls.c?id=4698e284f#n4243
So if it was a mount point, then the only logical conclusion is that the
top-most
directory of the mounted filesystem had this security context set.
Reproducer:
# Create an EXT4 file system and loop-mount it.
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=x.img bs=1M count=128 status=none
$ mkfs.ext4 -q x.img
$ mount -o loop x.img /mnt
# Initially, there's no security context, hence no '.' after the permission
string.
$ ls -ld /mnt
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Mar 25 23:54 /mnt
# Apply a security context.
$ setfattr -n security.selinux -v somevalue /mnt
# Now, ls(1) prints the '.' after the permission string as a hint to the
security context.
$ ls -ld /mnt
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 1024 Mar 25 23:54 /mnt
Have a nice day,
Berny