[arch-general] Linux Kernel capabilities

[arnaud gaboury]

 On Fri, Jul 17, 2015, 12:42 PM Patrick Burroughs (Celti) <celti at celti.name>
wrote:

On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 12:20:39 +0200
arnaud gaboury <arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com> wrote:

> I build my own kernel with ABS.
>
> To allow my nspawn container to load kernel modules, I must add this
> to nspawn unit file:
> --capability=CAP_SYS_MODULE.
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't work and needed modules are not loaded from
> container but only from host. I realized there is no #define
> CAP_SYS_MODULE
> in /usr/lib/modules/4.1.2-2-ARCH/build/include/linux/capability.h.
>
> Is this specific to the arch kernel ?
>
> Thank you for hints.
>

It was moved to include/uapi/linux/capability.h

recentlyish

The fact it has been moved could well explain why it doesn't work for my
container ?

As for your actual issue, SYS_CAP_MODULE isn't listed in the valid
capabilities for --capability in the systemd-nspawn manpage. Are you
perhaps confusing options?

Regards,
~Celti