Re: [PATCH 3/15] sanitize audit_ipc_obj()

[Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 20:53 +1100, James Morris wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Al Viro wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 06:24:40PM +1100, James Morris wrote:
> > > On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Al Viro wrote:
> > > 
> > > > +		struct {
> > > > +			uid_t			uid;
> > > > +			gid_t			gid;
> > > > +			mode_t			mode;
> > > > +			u32			osid;
> > > > +		} ipc;
> > > 
> > > 'osid' should be converted into 'secid' someday.
> > 
> > Eh?  Do you mean the field name there or the actual output?  Either is
> > trivial, of course, but the latter is up to userland folks and the
> > former alone seems to be rather pointless...
> 
> I was thinking in terms of the kernel API, where 'secid' is the preferred 
> name for security identifiers ('sid' being an SELinux-specific term and 
> also conflicting with 'session id').  Given that it's exposed to userland, 
> I guess it's too late.

James meant just do s/osid/secid/ for continuity across the kernel (we
are trying to make the main kernel a bit more LSM agnostic and sid is an
SELinux term).  The userspace exported part is actually a translated
string (I think we use ocontext= and scontext=).

There is no reason we couldn't do this in audit.  But, I don't think
it's worth changing this patch, as I think audit refers to it as sid in
other places.  Maybe I'll try to clean that up someday.  I at least
added it to my "someday" todo list.

-Eric