[refpolicy] [PATCH]: dontaudit sys_module wpa_supplicant

Guido Trentalancia guido at trentalancia.com
Sat Mar 19 20:24:03 CDT 2011


Hi Russell !

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Subject: Re: [refpolicy] [PATCH]: dontaudit sys_module wpa_supplicant
From: Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au>
Date: 20/03/2011 01:11

On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Guido Trentalancia <guido at trentalancia.com> wrote:
> wpa_supplicant (NetworkManager_t) tries to load kernel modules. I think
> this is forbidden in the first place by a neverallow rule in
> kernel/kernel.te. So the following patch simply "dontaudit" sys_module
> requests from wpa_supplicant (and NetworkManager).

> Which kernel modules?

Should be kernel modules which provide cryptographic algorithms needed by wpa_supplicant for certain authentication and encryption functions employed in some wireless ethernet protocols.

Regards,

Guido



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