Description of problem: When selinux does a relabel of a system, it doesn't seem to restrict itself to the local version. I have other versions of Fedora mounted under /mnt via fstab at boot, and it seems to crawl those systems and relabel them. Though I've noticed this before, the specific incident that triggered this ticket happened on F17 recently. When I did a yum update, the update of the selinux policy took over an hour. I assume it was doing a complete system relabel. When I booted into F14 after that, it wouldn't boot into runlevel 5 because of selinux problems. I didn't want to do a relabel because it would also crawl through /mnt and relabel F17. I keep F14 around because it is the last Fedora version that had full video functionality for my old hardware. I'm not sure that selinux caused this problem, but that install booted just fine prior to the selinux update, receives no updates, and failed after. It also now receives the denials on boot, which it didn't before. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): selinux-policy-targeted.noarch', '3.10.0-153.fc17 This is now updated to the latest, 156, with the latest yum update. How reproducible: Seems to happen every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have more than one Fedora install mounted 2. Relabel 3. Actual results: Relabels everything, including the other systems that are mounted, but not running. Expected results: Relabels only the current system. Additional info: Would it be possible to allow directories to be placed in the /.autorelabel file, and have selinux ignore those directories as part of the autorelabel? Or maybe in /etc/selinux/semanage.conf? There is already an ignoredirs option in the conf file, but it seems to serve a different purpose. I didn't try adding /mnt to that list, however, so it might serve this purpose also.
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