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Re: [PATCH 1/3] libsepol - fix aliased sensitivities

From: Stephen Smalley <sds_at_tycho.nsa.gov>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 08:01:46 -0500


On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 17:21 -0500, Kevin Carr wrote:
> While testing MLS features in apol we realized a few problems with aliased
> sensitivities in libsepol. This first patch fixes a double free in
> sens_destroy().

No, the correct solution is to avoid the aliasing in the checkpolicy code. That is what we have been doing for other similar cases; policydb_read in libsepol and the kernel doesn't do any such aliasing, and neither should checkpolicy.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency


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