Re: [PATCH v2] libsepol,checkpolicy: drop support for kernel policy versions < 24

Stephen Smalley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.selinux
Message-ID <CAEjxPJ6oRxoS7Gm3uFN-gGerPpmV1MPxb6jCcHfgTKGkq0YASw@mail.gmail.com> 
On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 11:29 AM James Carter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2026 at 3:15 PM Stephen Smalley
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Given the recently reported bugs in libsepol's support for policy
> > versions 20 through 23, let's drop support for kernel policy versions
> > < 24. This also aligns the minimum SELinux kernel policy version with
> > the minimum Xen policy version. This makes libsepol's minimum
> > supported kernel version v2.6.28 which is older than the v3.0 minimum
> > we already set for libselinux.
> >
> > Reported-by: Chen Gong <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <[email protected]>
>
> Acked-by: James Carter <[email protected]>

Thanks, merged.
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