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[meta-selinux] systemd: Explain background of creating /var/lib/systemd/backlight

Message ID 20260126153729.2758442-2-u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com
State New
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Series [meta-selinux] systemd: Explain background of creating /var/lib/systemd/backlight | expand

Commit Message

Uwe Kleine-König Jan. 26, 2026, 3:37 p.m. UTC 
The reasoning is taken from commit 5d203f903979 ("systemd: create
/var/lib/systemd/backlight in advance").
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 recipes-core/systemd/systemd_selinux.inc | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)


base-commit: 1db6bf1b573b9c908752602c1e2b6a30368da3b7
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diff --git a/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_selinux.inc b/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_selinux.inc
index 7d466ee608c8..4eb7194444d2 100644
--- a/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_selinux.inc
+++ b/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_selinux.inc
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ 
 inherit enable-selinux enable-audit
 
+# The systemd-backlight@.service which is called after selinux-init.service
+# will create /var/lib/systemd/backlight with incorrect security labels,
+# this causes the systemd-backlight service to fail to start and to stop.
+#
+# Creating /var/lib/systemd/backlight in advance to make sure it could
+# always be relabelled by selinux-init while first booting.
 do_install:append() {
 	if ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'backlight', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
 		install -d ${D}${localstatedir}/lib/systemd/backlight