2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/libbb/copy_file.c b/libbb/copy_file.c
index 6391824aa..07564afd0 100644
--- a/libbb/copy_file.c
+++ b/libbb/copy_file.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ int copy_file(const char *source, const char *dest, int flags)
                         }
                 } else {
                         if (errno == ENOTSUP || errno == ENODATA) {
-                                setfscreatecon(NULL);
+                                setfscreatecon_or_die(NULL);
                         } else {
                                 bb_perror_msg("cannot lgetfilecon %s", source);
                                 return -1;
diff --git a/libbb/selinux_common.c b/libbb/selinux_common.c
index 70d63a465..d506f0636 100644
--- a/libbb/selinux_common.c
+++ b/libbb/selinux_common.c
@@ -28,3 +28,13 @@ error:
         context_free(con);
         return NULL;
 }
+
+void setfscreatecon_or_die(security_context_t scontext)
+{
+        if (setfscreatecon(scontext) < 0) {
+                /* Can be NULL. All known printf implementations
+                 * display "(null)", "<null>" etc */
+                bb_perror_msg_and_die("cannot set default "
+                                "file creation context to %s", scontext);
+        }
+}