Description of problem: The "context" and "fscontext" mount options no longer *seem* to be supported by mount in FC5: # mount -r -o loop,fscontext=system_u:object_r:public_content_t /srv/softlib/fedora/bordeaux/FC-5-i386-DVD.iso /srv/softlib/fedora/bordeaux/dvd mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so The same command fails in the same way with "fscontext" changed to "context", but works if neither of those options is present. This leaves me with the mounted DVD image having a context of iso9660_t, which is reasonable but not what I want for serving out a local yum repository. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): util-linux-2.13-0.20 Additional info: After bringing this up on fedora-selinux-list, (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-selinux-list/2006-March/msg00110.html), the problem was explained by Stephen Smalley: Error message that I get in /var/log/messages is SELinux: security_context_to_sid(system_u:object_r:public_content_t) failed ... errno=-22 (EINVAL). But if I add a ':s0' suffix to the context, it works. So IIUC the problem here is that mount is directly passing the user-supplied context to the kernel without interacting with libselinux to translate it (via selinux_trans_to_raw_context). Needs to be patched accordingly, and updated in FC5 as well as rawhide. The workaround above is solving my problem, but as Stephen says, it needs fixing for FC5 and rawhide. It doesn't help that the "context" and "fscontext" mount options aren't documented in the mount manpage, but that's another ticket.
*** Bug 179437 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***