Latest kernel (2356), avc's on hwclock

Ian Pilcher i.pilcher at comcast.net
Fri Jul 7 23:06:59 UTC 2006


Stephen Smalley wrote:
> Looks like the Fedora hwclock is instrumented to generate an audit
> record, but policy doesn't yet allow it to do so.  These capability
> checks used to be silent (no auditing) since they occur on netlink recv,
> but a recent patch has enabled SELinux to generate audit messages on the
> netlink recv capability checks.  So we can expect these types of denials
> to show up now.  Should be allowed in this case.

So it's generating an audit message, because it wasn't allowed to
generate an audit message?

I've only had half a beer...

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Ian Pilcher                                        i.pilcher at comcast.net
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