Re: [PATCH][RFC] Unify printk messgaes

["Christopher J. PeBenito" <cpebenito@tresys.com>]

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 07:36 -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 20:53 +1100, James Morris wrote:
> > I noticed that we had a mix of "SELinux:" and "security:" prefixes in our 
> > kernel boot messages, so I've unified these to "SELinux:" with the patch 
> > below to reduce user confusion.  (It doesn't try and fix every printk, 
> > just the ones with "security:").
> > 
> > Also simplified the avtab hash message, from:
> > 
> >   SELinux:8192 avtab hash slots allocated. Num of rules:163922
> > 
> > to
> > 
> >   SELinux: 8192 avtab hash slots, 163922 rules.
> > 
> > 
> > Comments?
> 
> Makes sense from a user perspective - reflects further nativization of
> the Flask code for the Linux implementation, but will yield a difference
> in output between SELinux and e.g. SEBSD.  Only question I have is
> whether any userspace tools are looking for the security: prefix today.

Seaudit/libseaudit does look for the security prefix so that it can
report that there is a policy load, for example.  Since the patch just
changes "security" into "SELinux", it shouldn't be much of a problem for
updating libseaudit's parser.

-- 
Chris PeBenito
Tresys Technology, LLC
(410) 290-1411 x150


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