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+// Copyright 2021, The Android Open Source Project
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+//! Wrapper to libselinux
+
+use anyhow::{anyhow, Context, Result};
+use std::ffi::{CStr, CString};
+use std::fmt;
+use std::fs::File;
+use std::io;
+use std::ops::Deref;
+use std::os::raw::c_char;
+use std::os::unix::io::AsRawFd;
+use std::ptr;
+
+// Partially copied from system/security/keystore2/selinux/src/lib.rs
+/// SeContext represents an SELinux context string. It can take ownership of a raw
+/// s-string as allocated by `getcon` or `selabel_lookup`. In this case it uses
+/// `freecon` to free the resources when dropped. In its second variant it stores
+/// an `std::ffi::CString` that can be initialized from a Rust string slice.
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub enum SeContext {
+    /// Wraps a raw context c-string as returned by libselinux.
+    Raw(*mut ::std::os::raw::c_char),
+    /// Stores a context string as `std::ffi::CString`.
+    CString(CString),
+}
+
+impl PartialEq for SeContext {
+    fn eq(&self, other: &Self) -> bool {
+        // We dereference both and thereby delegate the comparison
+        // to `CStr`'s implementation of `PartialEq`.
+        **self == **other
+    }
+}
+
+impl Eq for SeContext {}
+
+impl fmt::Display for SeContext {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
+        write!(f, "{}", self.to_str().unwrap_or("Invalid context"))
+    }
+}
+
+impl Drop for SeContext {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        if let Self::Raw(p) = self {
+            // SAFETY: SeContext::Raw is created only with a pointer that is set by libselinux and
+            // has to be freed with freecon.
+            unsafe { selinux_bindgen::freecon(*p) };
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Deref for SeContext {
+    type Target = CStr;
+
+    fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target {
+        match self {
+            // SAFETY: the non-owned C string pointed by `p` is guaranteed to be valid (non-null
+            // and shorter than i32::MAX). It is freed when SeContext is dropped.
+            Self::Raw(p) => unsafe { CStr::from_ptr(*p) },
+            Self::CString(cstr) => cstr,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl SeContext {
+    /// Initializes the `SeContext::CString` variant from a Rust string slice.
+    pub fn new(con: &str) -> Result<Self> {
+        Ok(Self::CString(
+            CString::new(con)
+                .with_context(|| format!("Failed to create SeContext with \"{}\"", con))?,
+        ))
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn getfilecon(file: &File) -> Result<SeContext> {
+    let fd = file.as_raw_fd();
+    let mut con: *mut c_char = ptr::null_mut();
+    // SAFETY: the returned pointer `con` is wrapped in SeContext::Raw which is freed with
+    // `freecon` when it is dropped.
+    match unsafe { selinux_bindgen::fgetfilecon(fd, &mut con) } {
+        1.. => {
+            if !con.is_null() {
+                Ok(SeContext::Raw(con))
+            } else {
+                Err(anyhow!("fgetfilecon returned a NULL context"))
+            }
+        }
+        _ => Err(anyhow!(io::Error::last_os_error())).context("fgetfilecon failed"),
+    }
+}