On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 01:29:09AM +0000, Ansis Atteka wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2018 at 11:28, Aaron Conole <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Currently, Open vSwitch on linux embeds the logic of loading and unloading
> > kernel modules into the ovs-ctl and ovs-lib script files.  This works, but
> > it means that there is no way to leverage extended filesystem attributes
> > to grant fine grain permissions relating to module loading.
> 
> > The split out utility 'ovs-kmod-ctl' will be used in an upcoming commit
> > for RHEL-based distributions to have a separate transition domain that
> > will allow module loading to be given to a separate selinux domain from
> > the openvswitch_t domain.
> 
> One thing I have been thinking about recently is how we could containerize
> Open vSwitch (not sure if that is even possible in feasible way).
> 
> The idea would be that there would be, for example, Ubuntu based container
> running OVS user space daemons installed from our deb packages. And the
> "container host" would have Open vSwitch kernel module installed from our
> dkms or kmod rpm packages. (or vice versa).
> 
> Such design, I think, inevitably would require sometihing like ovs-kmod-ctl
> utility distributed with the dkms or kmod kernel module package.
> 
> This is something that does not requre action w.r.t. your series, but I
> would be interested to hear your opinion if you have thought how to make
> that happen...

I'd like to see this happen too.
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