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Commit ca7b04ba authored by Christopher Wiley's avatar Christopher Wiley
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Allow wificond to set interfaces up and down

This is apparently a privileged ioctl.  Being able to do this allows us
to no longer kill hostapd with SIGTERM, since we can cleanup after hard
stops.

Bug: 31023120
Test: wificond unit and integration tests pass

Change-Id: Icdf2469d403f420c742871f54b9fb17432805991
parent fab61e83
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......@@ -17,7 +17,10 @@ set_prop(wificond, ctl_default_prop)
# create sockets to set interfaces up and down
allow wificond self:udp_socket create_socket_perms;
# setting interface state up/down is a privileged ioctl
allowxperm wificond self:udp_socket ioctl { SIOCSIFFLAGS };
allow wificond self:capability { net_admin net_raw };
# allow wificond to speak to nl80211 in the kernel
allow wificond self:netlink_socket create_socket_perms_no_ioctl;
r_dir_file(wificond, proc_net)
......@@ -31,12 +34,6 @@ allow wificond wifi_data_file:file create_file_perms;
# files, which are owned by system or wifi (not wificond's root).
allow wificond self:capability { chown fowner };
# wificond tries to gracefully kill hostapd by sending it a signal.
# wificond checks for hostapd liveliness with signull.
allow wificond hostapd:process { signal signull };
# wificond needs kill to drop mad signals on hostapd.
allow wificond self:capability kill;
# wificond cleans up sockets created by wpa_supplicant and framework
allow wificond wpa_socket:dir rw_dir_perms;
allow wificond system_wpa_socket:sock_file unlink;
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