[grsec] hotplug cannot upload firmware

[spender at grsecurity.net]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:40:51PM +0000, Peter wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I have a network card that needs a firmware uploaded
> duing ifconfig eth0 up. But with kenel 2.6.7 and grsec
> 2.0.1 I could not get this to work. I always get the
> following error: 
> 
> grsec: (:::kernel::::S:/) denied open of /sys/class/firmware/0000:02:00.0 
> /loading for writing by /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent[firmware.agent:1856] 
> uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0, parent /sbin/hotplug[hotplug:4505] uid/euid:0/0 
> gid/egid:0/0 
> 
> How can I get around this? 

I've fixed it in current CVS in a way that will prevent problems like 
these from happening in the future.

-Brad