Yet another bug caused by SELinux

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Mar 20 17:08:27 UTC 2014


On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 12:22 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> GHC (Haskell) was broken for (at least) over a year because of a bug in the 
> workaround for stupid SELinux restrictions:
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7629
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907515
> 
> How much breakage will we have to suffer until people finally realize that 
> SELinux is a horribly flawed idea?

Of course restrictions implemented for security reasons will cause
issues. I don't know why you keep posting cases and acting as if this
will be news to someone. They happen, we get them fixed, everyone's
lives improve.

On the timeline of this one: as I read the reports, it was reported to
upstream on 2013-01-25. It was reported to Fedora on 2013-02-04. The
reporter tracked down and fixed the issue upstream on 2013-03-26. So one
month and 22 days after it was reported to Fedora, a patch was available
and could have been backported. In fact the patch was only backported to
Fedora 19 on 2014-01-29. The delay from 2013-03-26 to 2014-01-29 was the
Fedora maintainer's. Not to throw stones - maintainers are all busy -
just to note the facts: this issue could have been resolved much faster,
and SELinux is not the reason why it wasn't.
-- 
Adam Williamson
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