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Justin Mattock wrote:
> I'm not too sure if I should post this with SELinux,
> refpolicy, or kernel.org,(or even wpasupplicant);
> so I decided to do all to the best of my knowledge.
> when using the ath9k module with the latest git
> kernel(or atleast a few days old); and the latest refpolicy (svn)
> I'm seeing this avc denial show up:
>
> Dec 16 12:33:32 name kernel: [ 20.415785] type=1400
> audit(1229459612.411:3): avc: denied { sys_module } for pid=2510
> comm="wpa_supplicant" capability=16
> scontext=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0 tclass=capability
> Dec 16 12:33:32 name kernel: [ 20.428494] type=1300
> audit(1229459612.411:3): arch=40000003 syscall=54 success=no exit=-19
> a0=9 a1=8933 a2=bfadd94c a3=bfadd94c items=0 ppid=1 pid=2510
> auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0
> fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="wpa_supplicant"
> exe="/sbin/wpa_supplicant" subj=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0
> key=(null)
>
> the allow rule is:(with ath9k module)
> allow system_dbusd_t self:capability sys_module;
> which in turn will be rejected by checkpolicy
> (capability 16)
> when compiling the policy.
>
> If I use the madwifi module the avc is similar but produces
> allow system_dbusd_t self:capability { sys_admin }
> (capability 12)
> and will be accepted by checkpolicy.
>
> As for setup I'm using NetworkManager from
> intrepid as well as wpasupplicant
>
> Any info would be appreciated so I can test this module out
> and feel better knowing the module is not being denied in any
> way, that might cause a false positive, or some other weirdness.
>
>
> regards;
We label wpa_supplicant as NetworkManager_exec_t and have dbus
transition to this domain.
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