From: dwalsh@redhat.com (Daniel J Walsh)
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 05:55:02 -0400
Subject: [refpolicy] In Fedora policy we have simplified the
	secure_mode_insmod
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On 09/09/2011 11:56 AM, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> On 09/09/11 07:22, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>> Now this boolean controls sys_module, so we always transition but
>> we can turn off the ability to insert modules into the kernel.
>> 
>> This is much simpler then what we had before.
>> 
>> If you like this I have a similar patch for
>> secure_mode_loadpolicy
> 
> So with the current implementation, there are conditional module
> loaders and unconditional module loaders.  Do we really want to
> make all module loading conditional?  I'm fine with that, but are
> there reasons to keep the current conditional/unconditional
> behavior?  If so we can still keep that functionality, but
> implement it similar to this patch.
> 
I think this should be unconditional.  If you want to shutoff loading
kernel modules, this patch will do it even with unconfined programs
running.  It would be a pain to run with this system, but at least the
users know that at a certain state of the machine no kernel modules
can be loaded.
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