diff --git a/go-selinux/selinux_linux.go b/go-selinux/selinux_linux.go
index 90d65c1..38a001e 100644
--- a/go-selinux/selinux_linux.go
+++ b/go-selinux/selinux_linux.go
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
+	"path"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"regexp"
 	"strconv"
@@ -37,7 +38,6 @@ const (
 	selinuxTag       = "SELINUX"
 	xattrNameSelinux = "security.selinux"
 	stRdOnly         = 0x01
-	selinuxfsMagic   = 0xf97cff8c
 )
 
 type selinuxState struct {
@@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ func verifySELinuxfsMount(mnt string) bool {
 		}
 		return false
 	}
-	if uint32(buf.Type) != uint32(selinuxfsMagic) {
+
+	if buf.Type != unix.SELINUX_MAGIC {
 		return false
 	}
 	if (buf.Flags & stRdOnly) != 0 {
@@ -254,10 +255,17 @@ func getSELinuxPolicyRoot() string {
 	return filepath.Join(selinuxDir, readConfig(selinuxTypeTag))
 }
 
-func isProcHandle(fh *os.File) (bool, error) {
+func isProcHandle(fh *os.File) error {
 	var buf unix.Statfs_t
 	err := unix.Fstatfs(int(fh.Fd()), &buf)
-	return buf.Type == unix.PROC_SUPER_MAGIC, err
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("statfs(%q) failed: %v", fh.Name(), err)
+	}
+	if buf.Type != unix.PROC_SUPER_MAGIC {
+		return fmt.Errorf("file %q is not on procfs", fh.Name())
+	}
+
+	return nil
 }
 
 func readCon(fpath string) (string, error) {
@@ -271,10 +279,8 @@ func readCon(fpath string) (string, error) {
 	}
 	defer in.Close()
 
-	if ok, err := isProcHandle(in); err != nil {
+	if err := isProcHandle(in); err != nil {
 		return "", err
-	} else if !ok {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s not on procfs", fpath)
 	}
 
 	var retval string
@@ -346,7 +352,7 @@ func ExecLabel() (string, error) {
 	return readCon(fmt.Sprintf("/proc/self/task/%d/attr/exec", syscall.Gettid()))
 }
 
-func writeCon(fpath string, val string) error {
+func writeCon(fpath, val string) error {
 	if fpath == "" {
 		return ErrEmptyPath
 	}
@@ -362,10 +368,8 @@ func writeCon(fpath string, val string) error {
 	}
 	defer out.Close()
 
-	if ok, err := isProcHandle(out); err != nil {
+	if err := isProcHandle(out); err != nil {
 		return err
-	} else if !ok {
-		return fmt.Errorf("%s not on procfs", fpath)
 	}
 
 	if val != "" {
@@ -505,19 +509,18 @@ func ReserveLabel(label string) {
 }
 
 func selinuxEnforcePath() string {
-	return fmt.Sprintf("%s/enforce", getSelinuxMountPoint())
+	return path.Join(getSelinuxMountPoint(), "enforce")
 }
 
 // EnforceMode returns the current SELinux mode Enforcing, Permissive, Disabled
 func EnforceMode() int {
 	var enforce int
 
-	enforceS, err := readCon(selinuxEnforcePath())
+	enforceB, err := ioutil.ReadFile(selinuxEnforcePath())
 	if err != nil {
 		return -1
 	}
-
-	enforce, err = strconv.Atoi(string(enforceS))
+	enforce, err = strconv.Atoi(string(enforceB))
 	if err != nil {
 		return -1
 	}
@@ -529,7 +532,7 @@ SetEnforceMode sets the current SELinux mode Enforcing, Permissive.
 Disabled is not valid, since this needs to be set at boot time.
 */
 func SetEnforceMode(mode int) error {
-	return writeCon(selinuxEnforcePath(), fmt.Sprintf("%d", mode))
+	return ioutil.WriteFile(selinuxEnforcePath(), []byte(strconv.Itoa(mode)), 0644)
 }
 
 /*
@@ -711,7 +714,7 @@ exit:
 
 // SecurityCheckContext validates that the SELinux label is understood by the kernel
 func SecurityCheckContext(val string) error {
-	return writeCon(fmt.Sprintf("%s/context", getSelinuxMountPoint()), val)
+	return ioutil.WriteFile(path.Join(getSelinuxMountPoint(), "context"), []byte(val), 0644)
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/go-selinux/selinux_linux_test.go b/go-selinux/selinux_linux_test.go
index 866ecc3..945acf3 100644
--- a/go-selinux/selinux_linux_test.go
+++ b/go-selinux/selinux_linux_test.go
@@ -53,9 +53,6 @@ func TestSELinux(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Log(plabel)
 	t.Log(flabel)
 	ReleaseLabel(plabel)
-	t.Log("Enforcing Mode", EnforceMode())
-	mode := DefaultEnforceMode()
-	t.Log("Default Enforce Mode ", mode)
 
 	plabel, flabel = ContainerLabels()
 	t.Log(plabel)
@@ -67,15 +64,6 @@ func TestSELinux(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Log(flabel)
 	ReleaseLabel(plabel)
 
-	defer SetEnforceMode(mode)
-	if err := SetEnforceMode(Enforcing); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("enforcing selinux failed: %v", err)
-	}
-	if err := SetEnforceMode(Permissive); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("setting selinux mode to permissive failed: %v", err)
-	}
-	SetEnforceMode(mode)
-
 	pid := os.Getpid()
 	t.Logf("PID:%d MCS:%s\n", pid, intToMcs(pid, 1023))
 	err = SetFSCreateLabel("unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0")
@@ -95,6 +83,27 @@ func TestSELinux(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Log(PidLabel(1))
 }
 
+func TestSetEnforceMode(t *testing.T) {
+	if !GetEnabled() {
+		t.Skip("SELinux not enabled, skipping.")
+	}
+	if os.Geteuid() != 0 {
+		t.Skip("root required, skipping")
+	}
+
+	t.Log("Enforcing Mode:", EnforceMode())
+	mode := DefaultEnforceMode()
+	t.Log("Default Enforce Mode:", mode)
+	defer SetEnforceMode(mode)
+
+	if err := SetEnforceMode(Enforcing); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("setting selinux mode to enforcing failed: %v", err)
+	}
+	if err := SetEnforceMode(Permissive); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("setting selinux mode to permissive failed: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestCanonicalizeContext(t *testing.T) {
 	if !GetEnabled() {
 		t.Skip("SELinux not enabled, skipping.")
@@ -166,3 +175,28 @@ func TestFindSELinuxfsInMountinfo(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+func TestSecurityCheckContext(t *testing.T) {
+	if !GetEnabled() {
+		t.Skip("SELinux not enabled, skipping.")
+	}
+
+	// check with valid context
+	context, err := CurrentLabel()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("CurrentLabel() error: %v", err)
+	}
+	if context != "" {
+		t.Logf("SecurityCheckContext(%q)", context)
+		err = SecurityCheckContext(context)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("SecurityCheckContext(%q) error: %v", context, err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	context = "not-syntactically-valid"
+	err = SecurityCheckContext(context)
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Errorf("SecurityCheckContext(%q) succeeded, expected to fail", context)
+	}
+}