Is SELinux support as a kernel module possible ??

Eric Paris eparis at redhat.com
Wed Jan 2 02:36:15 UTC 2008


No, it is not possible.  Sorry.  There is no work to make it possible
nor will there be.  There is actually work going on to remove most of
the modular (but unusable/broken) infrastructure in LSM code.

-Eric

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 05:00 +0530, Leo Prasath wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I have a need to install SELinux on a sytem running with a kernel
> without SELinux built into it. However, I cannot reinstall a custom
> kernel with the SELinux built into it.
> 
> So, I am looking at building a kernel module for SELinux and load it.
> I tried compiling the kernel with config option
> CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX=m and i got this error: 
> 
> .config:984:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for SECURITY_SELINUX
> 
> Is it possible to load SELinux as a kernel module ? Has anyone tried
> this ?
> 
> Any help is appreciated
> 
> Thanks,
> Leo. 
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