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libjail: fix fetching mac.label for multiple jails
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Authored by kevans on May 27 2026, 6:50 PM.
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Summary

When doing a basic jls -n, jls(8) will jailparam_get() the mac.label
for every jail on the system using the same set of jailparams, and thus
the same jp_value. We only init the mac_t the first time, so the first
jail would populate it with ? from /etc/mac.conf and the resulting
jail_get(2) would clobber it with the empty string, then a second jail
would try to pass the empty string to the kernel and fail because it
must have a non-zero length.

Fix it by invoking jps_get() every time. Drop some comments to note
that jps_get() will be invoked with zero || garbage from previous call,
and be sure that we don't leak our previous mac_t. There aren't any
other jps_get implementations at this time, so this shouldn't cause any
unexpected problems.

Reported by: ivy

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jamie added a subscriber: jamie.

The key point is "there aren't any other jps_get implementations." So it's all yours :-)