diff --git a/common/config b/common/config
index 0f153412..44d8eb10 100644
--- a/common/config
+++ b/common/config
@@ -132,6 +132,11 @@ export DF_PROG="$(type -P df)"
 export XFS_IO_PROG="$(type -P xfs_io)"
 [ "$XFS_IO_PROG" = "" ] && _fatal "xfs_io not found"
 
+export MKSWAP_PROG="$(type -P mkswap)"
+# mkswap from util-linux v2.17.2 or older needs "-f" option to force to erase
+# bootbits sectors
+MKSWAP_PROG="$MKSWAP_PROG -f"
+
 export XFS_LOGPRINT_PROG="$(type -P xfs_logprint)"
 export XFS_REPAIR_PROG="$(type -P xfs_repair)"
 export XFS_DB_PROG="$(type -P xfs_db)"
diff --git a/common/rc b/common/rc
index e5da6484..b8ed1776 100644
--- a/common/rc
+++ b/common/rc
@@ -2210,15 +2210,28 @@ _format_swapfile() {
 	# Swap files must be nocow on Btrfs.
 	$CHATTR_PROG +C "$fname" > /dev/null 2>&1
 	_pwrite_byte 0x61 0 "$sz" "$fname" >> $seqres.full
-	mkswap "$fname" >> $seqres.full
+	$MKSWAP_PROG "$fname" >> $seqres.full
 }
 
 # Check that the filesystem supports swapfiles
 _require_scratch_swapfile()
 {
 	_require_scratch
+	_require_command "$MKSWAP_PROG" "mkswap"
 
 	_scratch_mkfs >/dev/null
+
+	# With mounting SELinux context(e.g. system_u:object_r:root_t:s0),
+	# standard mkswap tried to reset the type of default context to
+	# swapfile_t if it's not swapfile_t, and then it failed and returned
+	# ENOTSUP expectedly as we don't want to create any SELinux attr on
+	# purpose.  standard mkswap ignored this relabel error by commit
+	# d97dc0e of util-linux, but it still reported the error before
+	# commit d97dc0e.  We mount swapfile context directly to skip the
+	# reset step.
+	[ -n "$SELINUX_MOUNT_OPTIONS" ] && export \
+		SELINUX_MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o context=system_u:object_r:swapfile_t:s0"
+
 	_scratch_mount
 
 	# Minimum size for mkswap is 10 pages
diff --git a/tests/btrfs/173 b/tests/btrfs/173
index 76d4407c..515d8cfa 100755
--- a/tests/btrfs/173
+++ b/tests/btrfs/173
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ rm -f "$SCRATCH_MNT/swap"
 touch "$SCRATCH_MNT/swap"
 chmod 0600 "$SCRATCH_MNT/swap"
 _pwrite_byte 0x61 0 $(($(get_page_size) * 10)) "$SCRATCH_MNT/swap" >> $seqres.full
-mkswap "$SCRATCH_MNT/swap" >> $seqres.full
+$MKSWAP_PROG "$SCRATCH_MNT/swap" >> $seqres.full
 swapon "$SCRATCH_MNT/swap" 2>&1 | _filter_scratch
 swapoff "$SCRATCH_MNT/swap" >/dev/null 2>&1
 
diff --git a/tests/xfs/419 b/tests/xfs/419
index 33d2d0da..6865201d 100755
--- a/tests/xfs/419
+++ b/tests/xfs/419
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ $XFS_IO_PROG -c "open -f -R $testdir/dummy" $testdir >> $seqres.full
 echo moo >> $testdir/dummy
 $XFS_IO_PROG -c "open -f -R $testdir/file1" $testdir >> $seqres.full
 _pwrite_byte 0x61 0 $((blocks * blksz)) $testdir/file1 >> $seqres.full
-mkswap -U 27376b42-ff65-42ca-919f-6c9b62292a5c $testdir/file1 >> $seqres.full
+$MKSWAP_PROG -U 27376b42-ff65-42ca-919f-6c9b62292a5c $testdir/file1 >> $seqres.full
 
 echo "Try to swapon"
 swapon $testdir/file1 2>&1 | _filter_scratch