From 533391a2a75f49da27adc71214caeeb4ef07d81c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:56:48 +0100
Subject: ls: don't segfault on files in /proc with an old libselinux

* src/ls.c (gobble_file): Work around a bug in libselinux1-2.0.15
whereby getfilecon returns 0 yet sets the context to NULL.
Reported by Jan Moringen via Michael Stone in
http://bugs.debian.org/463043
* tests/ls/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add proc-selinux-segfault.
* tests/ls/proc-selinux-segfault: Test for the above fix.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
---
 NEWS | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'NEWS')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 481129669..f474141a2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Bug fixes
 
+  ls no longer segfaults on files in /proc when linked with an older version
+  of libselinux.  E.g., ls -l /proc/sys would dereference a NULL pointer.
+
   Fix a non-portable use of sed in configure.ac.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-6.9.92]
 
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