MLS levels and the initial SID for kernel_t

[Paul Moore]

Dan's latest MLS policy RPM (as well as some past versions) has a patch 
in it, mlspol.patch, which contains the following change for 
initial_sid_contexts:

  -sid kernel        system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0 - s9:c0.c127
  +sid kernel        system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s9:c0.c127

 From what I can tell this causes some problems, the biggest of which 
being that init starts at s9 which can cause the system to die on boot 
when trying to fsck the filesystems.  I'm not entirely sure why this 
change was made as I would think we would want the kernel to run at 
s0-s9 or at the very least s0.  Can someone clue me in as to why we want 
to run the kernel at s9 or, Dan, can you change it back to s0 - s9?

Thanks,

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