Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264040AbTKMMsU (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:48:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264074AbTKMMsU (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:48:20 -0500 Received: from pix-525-pool.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:36878 "EHLO int-mx1.corp.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264040AbTKMMsT (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:48:19 -0500 From: Russell Coker Reply-To: russell@coker.com.au To: Linux Kernel Subject: 2.6.0-test9 and /dev/initctl Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:48:12 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311132348.12766.russell@coker.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 973 Lines: 22 With kernel 2.6.0-test9 running on both Fedora and Debian/unstable there is a problem with file handles. It seems that the kernel somehow gets an open file handle for /dev/initctl (I still haven't determined how) and then passes it on to any processes it forks (IE modprobe and hotplug). This shows up when running SE Linux as neither modprobe nor hotplug are permitted to access /dev/initctl in any way and the kernel message log records the access that was denied. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/