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    sepolicy: Drop BOARD_SEPOLICY_IGNORE/REPLACE support. · b4f17069
    Stephen Smalley authored
    With changes I431c1ab22fc53749f623937154b9ec43469d9645 and
    Ia54aa263f2245c7090f4b9d9703130c19f11bd28, it is no longer
    legitimate to use BOARD_SEPOLICY_IGNORE or REPLACE with
    any of the *_contexts files since the CTS requires the AOSP
    entries to be present in the device files.
    
    Further, these changes render BOARD_SEPOLICY_IGNORE unusable for
    most policy files since all domains and types referenced within any
    of the AOSP *_contexts entries must be defined in the kernel policy, so
    you cannot use BOARD_SEPOLICY_IGNORE to exclude any .te file
    that defines a type referenced in any of those *_contexts files.
    There does not seem to be a significant need for such a facility,
    as AOSP policy is small and only domains and types used by most
    devices should be defined in external/sepolicy.
    
    BOARD_SEPOLICY_REPLACE is commonly misused to eliminate neverallow rules
    from AOSP policy, which will only lead to CTS failures, especially
    since change Iefe508df265f62efa92f8eb74fc65542d39e3e74 introduced neverallow
    checking on the entire policy via sepolicy-analyze.  The only remaining
    legitimate function of BOARD_SEPOLICY_REPLACE is to support overriding
    AOSP .te files with more restrictive rule sets.  However, the need for this
    facility has been significantly reduced by the fact that AOSP policy
    is now fully confined + enforcing for all domains, and further restrictions
    beyond AOSP carry a compatibility risk.
    
    Builders of custom policies and custom ROMs still have the freedom to
    apply patches on top of external/sepolicy to tighten rule sets (which are
    likely more maintainable than maintaining a completely separate copy of
    the file via BOARD_SEPOLICY_REPLACE) and/or of using their own separate
    policy build system as exemplified by
    https://bitbucket.org/quarksecurity/build-policies
    
    
    
    Change-Id: I2611e983f7cbfa15f9d45ec3ea301e94132b06fa
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
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