Bug 472123 – "selinux=off" boot parametr not recognized by kernel 2.6.27.5-37.fc9 and selinux-policy 3.3.1-107.fc9

Bug 472123 - "selinux=off" boot parametr not recognized by kernel 2.6.27.5-37.fc9 and selinux-policy 3.3.1-107.fc9

Summary:	"selinux=off" boot parametr not recognized by kernel 2.6.27.5-37.fc9 and seli...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	i686 Linux

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Assigned To:	Eric Paris
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Reported:	2008-11-18 15:43 EST by Met Merilius
Modified:	2008-11-18 16:23 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2008-11-18 16:23:26 EST
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Description Met Merilius 2008-11-18 15:43:31 EST

Description of problem:
System does not recognise boot parameter "selinux=off". The SELinux mode is determined instead from config files.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-PAE.i686                          2.6.27.5-37.fc9 
selinux-policy.noarch                    3.3.1-107.fc9
selinux-policy-targeted.noarch           3.3.1-107.fc9 


How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install kernel-PAE-2.6.27.5-37.fc9.i686
2. append "selinux=off" to grub.conf for this kernel
3. boot the new kernel
  
Actual results:
SELinux policy is not overridden by a boot parameter. The configured policy in /etc/selinux is used instead. With combination of a F9 analog of bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468645 when selinux was never enabled before it leads to impossibility of logging in.


Expected results:
SELinux is disabled when "selinux=off" is specified as a boot param.


Additional info:
On kernel version kernel-PAE-2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686 and previous ones problem has never occurred. (Same selinux-version used.)
Didn't try put "enforcing" parameter instead.

Comment 1 James Morris 2008-11-18 16:23:26 EST

The selinux parameter takes 0 or 1 as arguments.

See Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt in the kernel source tree.

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