Re: Rawhide kernel is reporting

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On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 12:02 -0500, Eric Paris wrote:
> Stephen do you have any thoughts on me stealing another flag to
> specify maybe 'has_unknown'?  Then we can only print a message if
> there is an unknown permission?  I could probably also to the printing
> in the validate_classes loop and not have to carry a flag.
> 
> dwlash also suggested
> 
> SELinux: policy loaded with allowing unknown accesses.
> 
> probably a bit less cryptic.  If we like the idea of not printing the
> message except when relevant I'll make both changes...

Moving the output to validate_classes and making it conditional on
whether or not any classes/perms were undefined seems reasonable.  I
don't think the above is less cryptic though.  Maybe "SELinux:  Missing
kernel classes or permissions from the loaded policy,
allowing/denying/rejecting".

> 
> -Eric
> 
> On 12/31/07, Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It means that if you kernel has defined classes and permissions which
> > the policy doesn't know about those security checks will be 'allowed'.
> > Aka if you update your kernel and not your policy 'hopefully' it won't
> > break stuff.
> >
> > -Eric
> >
> > On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 11:46 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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> > > SELinux: policy loaded with handle_unknown=allow
> > >
> > >
> > > Have no idea what this means.
> > >
> > > Dan
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