From: cpebenito@tresys.com (Christopher J. PeBenito)
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:43:15 -0500
Subject: [refpolicy] [PATCH 1/1] Allow modprobe to request module load
In-Reply-To: <20110206142743.GA10802@siphos.be>
References: <20110206142743.GA10802@siphos.be>
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To: refpolicy@oss.tresys.com
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On 2/6/2011 9:27 AM, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> The modprobe utility is sometimes used (for instance for ALSA) to request
> the Linux kernel to load a module (through aliases) rather than explicitly
> loading the module.

Merged.

> Signed-off-by: Sven Vermeulen<sven.vermeulen@siphos.be>
> ---
>   policy/modules/system/modutils.te |    1 +
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/policy/modules/system/modutils.te b/policy/modules/system/modutils.te
> index 74a4466..882b50c 100644
> --- a/policy/modules/system/modutils.te
> +++ b/policy/modules/system/modutils.te
> @@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ read_files_pattern(insmod_t, modules_dep_t, modules_dep_t)
>   can_exec(insmod_t, insmod_exec_t)
>
>   kernel_load_module(insmod_t)
> +kernel_request_load_module(insmod_t)
>   kernel_read_system_state(insmod_t)
>   kernel_read_network_state(insmod_t)
>   kernel_write_proc_files(insmod_t)


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Chris PeBenito
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