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Dom0 should not have network drivers #3799

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DemiMarie opened this Issue Apr 8, 2018 · 1 comment

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DemiMarie commented Apr 8, 2018

Qubes OS version:

R4.0

Affected component(s):

Dom0 kernel


Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Run find /lib/modules/4.14.18-1.pvops.qubes.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net

Expected behavior:

No output, or an error because that directory does not exist

Actual behavior:

Many lines of output.

General notes:

Dom0 should not have a network connection. Therefore, it has no need for any of those drivers, and they increase attack surface in the event of a misconfiguration.

While these drivers must be built if we are to use common Dom0 and DomU kernels, we can delete them from the Dom0 kernel package.

Can these drivers be safely deleted?


Related issues:

#2743

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Duplicate of #3656

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marmarek commented Apr 8, 2018

Duplicate of #3656

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