diff --git a/lib/src/install.rs b/lib/src/install.rs
index c40226fdd..2067a5bb6 100644
--- a/lib/src/install.rs
+++ b/lib/src/install.rs
@@ -732,7 +732,10 @@ pub(crate) fn reexecute_self_for_selinux_if_needed(
     if srcdata.selinux {
         let host_selinux = crate::lsm::selinux_enabled()?;
         tracing::debug!("Target has SELinux, host={host_selinux}");
-        if host_selinux {
+        if override_disable_selinux {
+            ret_did_override = true;
+            println!("notice: Target has SELinux enabled, overriding to disable")
+        } else if host_selinux {
             // /sys/fs/selinuxfs is not normally mounted, so we do that now.
             // Because SELinux enablement status is cached process-wide and was very likely
             // already queried by something else (e.g. glib's constructor), we would also need
@@ -741,9 +744,6 @@ pub(crate) fn reexecute_self_for_selinux_if_needed(
             crate::lsm::container_setup_selinux()?;
             // This will re-execute the current process (once).
             g = crate::lsm::selinux_ensure_install_or_setenforce()?;
-        } else if override_disable_selinux {
-            ret_did_override = true;
-            println!("notice: Target has SELinux enabled, overriding to disable")
         } else if std::env::var_os(skip_check_envvar).is_some() {
             eprintln!(
                 "Host kernel does not have SELinux support, but target enables it by default; {} is set, continuing anyways",
diff --git a/lib/src/lsm.rs b/lib/src/lsm.rs
index 74c9feb90..e6bf5ed41 100644
--- a/lib/src/lsm.rs
+++ b/lib/src/lsm.rs
@@ -24,8 +24,9 @@ const SELF_CURRENT: &str = "/proc/self/attr/current";
 
 #[context("Querying selinux availability")]
 pub(crate) fn selinux_enabled() -> Result<bool> {
-    let filesystems = std::fs::read_to_string("/proc/filesystems")?;
-    Ok(filesystems.contains("selinuxfs\n"))
+    Path::new("/proc/1/root/sys/fs/selinux/enforce")
+        .try_exists()
+        .map_err(Into::into)
 }
 
 /// Get the current process SELinux security context