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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] net: don't allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to load non-netdev kernel modules
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 22:43:54 +0300 Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 12:39 -0700, Jake Edge wrote:
> > > @@ -1765,4 +1765,4 @@ module_exit(ipgre_fini);
> > > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> > > MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("gre");
> > > MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK("gretap");
> > > -MODULE_ALIAS("gre0");
> > > +MODULE_ALIAS_NETDEV("gre0");
> >
> > that is, instead of replacing MODULE_ALIAS("gre0") with the NETDEV
> > version, don't you want both for backward compatibility?
>
> The networking script will run with CAP_NET_ADMIN, this would request
> netdev-gre0 and load ip_gre.

and on systems that today use CAP_SYS_MODULE (or really the full set of
capabilities cuz they are running as root)? won't those try to load
gre0 and fail because that alias doesn't exist?

jake

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