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* ping broken symptoms
@ 2005-09-16 20:14 Christopher J. PeBenito
  2005-09-16 20:17 ` Stephen Smalley
  2005-09-16 20:25 ` Daniel J Walsh
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Christopher J. PeBenito @ 2005-09-16 20:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: SELinux Mail List

At the bottom of the ping policy, there is this ifdef:

ifdef(`hide_broken_symptoms', `
allow ping_t init_t:fd use;
')

Isn't the purpose of the hide_broken_symptoms m4 tunable to dontaudit
broken code that can work without these accesses, not allow them?

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Chris PeBenito
Tresys Technology, LLC
(410) 290-1411 x150


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* Re: ping broken symptoms
  2005-09-16 20:14 ping broken symptoms Christopher J. PeBenito
@ 2005-09-16 20:17 ` Stephen Smalley
  2005-09-16 20:25 ` Daniel J Walsh
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Smalley @ 2005-09-16 20:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christopher J. PeBenito; +Cc: SELinux Mail List

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 16:14 -0400, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> At the bottom of the ping policy, there is this ifdef:
> 
> ifdef(`hide_broken_symptoms', `
> allow ping_t init_t:fd use;
> ')
> 
> Isn't the purpose of the hide_broken_symptoms m4 tunable to dontaudit
> broken code that can work without these accesses, not allow them?

Yes, looks like a mistake to me.

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Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency


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* Re: ping broken symptoms
  2005-09-16 20:14 ping broken symptoms Christopher J. PeBenito
  2005-09-16 20:17 ` Stephen Smalley
@ 2005-09-16 20:25 ` Daniel J Walsh
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Daniel J Walsh @ 2005-09-16 20:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christopher J. PeBenito; +Cc: SELinux Mail List

Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:

>At the bottom of the ping policy, there is this ifdef:
>
>ifdef(`hide_broken_symptoms', `
>allow ping_t init_t:fd use;
>')
>
>Isn't the purpose of the hide_broken_symptoms m4 tunable to dontaudit
>broken code that can work without these accesses, not allow them?
>
>  
>
yes

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