Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] virtualbox /proc/modules warning
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 05:56:32
Message-Id: 1379138206.21682.10.camel@i7.hotspot.s-bit.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] virtualbox /proc/modules warning by Alex Efros
1 В Сб, 14/09/2013 в 00:46 +0300, Alex Efros пишет:
2 > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 12:16:20AM +0400, Peter Volkov wrote:
3 > > That said I don't think it's worth to have such patch in portage
4 > > tree - just apply it locally.
5 >
6 > Why is that? How such patch may harm anything?
7 >
8 > --- /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh.old 2013-09-14 00:45:13.873137602 +0300
9 > +++ /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh 2013-09-14 00:45:17.553137565 +0300
10 > @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
11 ...
12 > -elif ! lsmod|grep -q vboxdrv; then
13 > +elif [ -r /proc/modules ] && ! lsmod|grep -q vboxdrv; then
14
15 If /proc/modules is unreadable we don't know if modules are loaded or
16 not. In such case it's better to show warning. That said, problem with
17 this check is that it should check for functionality virtualbox requires
18 (with /dev/vboxdrv) but such change should go upstream.
19
20 --
21 Peter.