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-rw-r--r--security/selinux/hooks.c17
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index e9011e5f5ffb..aebcfad5613f 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/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;