Re: strange error loading kvm module on latest FC6 kernel

[Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 08:37 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>   
>> James Morris wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Greg M Lee wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>   updated to latest FC6 kernel yesterday ie 2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6
>>>>> compiled kvm-15 from sourceforge this morning
>>>>> chose the unpatched kernel instructions [ was this the right choice ?]
>>>>> configure, make, make install all went fine (some warnings here and
>>>>> there)
>>>>> modprobe kvm-intel gave a bunch of errors in dmesg the first of which
>>>>> was:  SELinux: initialized (dev kvmfs, type kvmfs), not configured for
>>>>> labeling
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> Ouch.  Anybody here know how to deal with that?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> It's not an error, SELinux just doesn't know about this type of fs, and 
>>> there's no configuration for the mount point.  Looks like the SELinux 
>>> policy package needs to be updated.  (Note that this has nothing to do 
>>> with the errors encountered).
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>>> so I disabled SELinux
>>>>> modprobe kvm-intel still gave a bunch of errors in dmesg:
>>>>>
>>>>> kvm_intel: Unknown symbol gfn_to_memslot
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> Try with the attached patch.  Unfortunately you also have to reboot.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>   
>>>       
>> I will add this fs to policy.
>>     
>
> What are the protection requirements for it?  What should be allowed to
> access it?
>
>   
I have no clue,  Just adding it as a fs_type.  Just like debugfs_t.

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