> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Smalley [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 9:18 AM
> To: Roberts, William C <[email protected]>; seandroid-
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: mac_override: What does ignore mean?
> 
> On 12/14/2015 11:57 AM, Roberts, William C wrote:
> > According to:
> > http://selinuxproject.org/page/ObjectClassesPerms#capability2,
> > mac_override is ignored. What does that actually mean? Is it always
> > denied (my guess) or always allowed?
> 
> It is never checked by SELinux, only by Smack.
> 

What does that entail exactly? The messages printed to dmesg are "avc denied". 
Does the "is capable" checks
call into SE Linux and EPERM is always returned?

I ask this in the context of an out of tree driver that is currently and 
incorrectly coded with a capable(MAC_OVERRIDE) check.




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