From: dominick.grift@gmail.com (Dominick Grift) Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 21:58:42 +0100 Subject: [refpolicy] [PATCH 09/39] These are some of the device nodes created by kernel, and udev with the generic device_t type in debian. In-Reply-To: <20131110203327.383ce68f@gentp.lnet> References: <1383990320-3340-1-git-send-email-dominick.grift@gmail.com> <1383990320-3340-9-git-send-email-dominick.grift@gmail.com> <20131110203327.383ce68f@gentp.lnet> Message-ID: <1384117122.30406.3.camel@d30> To: refpolicy@oss.tresys.com List-Id: refpolicy.oss.tresys.com On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 20:33 +0100, Luis Ressel wrote: > I also experience this problem when I reconnect my mouse, so it isn't > debian-specific. I'm not a SELinux expert, but this patch looks like a > workaround to me, not like a real fix. It's also a bit limited: For > example, on my system, there are more event devices than event0 - > event5 (atm, the mouse in question is at event9). I consider this to be a )possible) starting point I do not think we should add named file type transitions for every conceivable object in /dev like i think Fedora does Only the ones that are actually confirmed. but yes this should probably not be distro specific. Consider this patch a [RFC]