Please don¹t make CTS enforce AOSP policy. Changing AOSP policy doesn¹t
mean the policy is weakened. We often change the policy to make it more
secure (e.g., shell restriction) or to customize for vendor specific
process.

Tai

On 9/19/14, 5:40 PM, "William Roberts" <[email protected]> wrote:

>They could get a similair result with UNION + IGNORE (Filter). I can
>say I have seen valid uses of REPLACE. Perhaps the issue here is that
>we don't want them to override certain files. If the neverallow rules
>stayed in one file, we could error out if they tried to replace them
>or filter them.
>
>But at the end of the day, if their building from source they could
>just change those two, but an expicit warning may cause them to
>re-think their approach.
>
>This might be just crazy here, because this approach is a bit more
>cumbersome. What if we made the neverallow rules part of the compiled
>policy and then have CTS read those out and check against the AOSP
>policy? Again, though they have the source and could just lie to CTS
>or embed phony never allow rules... IDK.
>
>
>Bill
>
>
>On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Nick Kralevich <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I'm really starting to get annoyed at BOARD_SEPOLICY_REPLACE.
>>
>> A few times now, I've seen people misusing this to bypass neverallow
>>rules.
>> For example, just today I saw someone who copied over domain.te,
>>commented
>> out a bunch of neverallow rules, then used "BOARD_SEPOLICY_REPLACE +=
>> domain.te" to get their policy to compile. Not only do we have two
>>copies of
>> domain.te floating around, people will be rudely surprised when their
>> devices fail CTS.
>>
>> I really want to get rid of this directive... I have yet to see one
>> legitimate use of this.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> --
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>
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