Selinux and Nvidia drivers

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Tue May 31 14:30:21 UTC 2011


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On 05/30/2011 06:40 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 07:25:45PM +0900, Misha Shnurapet wrote:
> 
>> 30.05.2011, 18:47, "Alexander Volovics" <a.volovic at upcmail.nl>:
>>> Wat is the reaction of selinux to the nvidia driver.
>>> Does selinux try to prevent the nvidia driver from being loaded?
>  
>> Nope. I've been using them together and experienced no issues.
> 
> Thanks. Then I guess I should finally start reading up on
> selinux and not trust my 'intuition' anymore.
> I thought the nvidia driver being a "fremdkörper" and all ...
> 
> Alexander
> 
Sometimes the nvidia driver device can be mislabled, which can cause
SELinux issues.  In the past we have had problems with nvidia requiring
GUI apps to need execstack and execmem, but we are now allowing these by
default.
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