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From: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
	Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com, selinux <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] selinux: Report result in avc messages
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:59:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5360F3C6.4090501@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1398826782.10979.9.camel@localhost>


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How about permitted rather then allowed.

On 04/29/2014 10:59 PM, Eric Paris wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 16:54 -0700, Stephen Smalley wrote:
>> Requested for Android in order to distinguish denials that are not in
>> fact breaking anything yet due to permissive domains versus denials
>> that are being enforced, but seems generally useful.  result field was
>> already in the selinux audit data structure and was being passed to
>> avc_audit() but wasn't being used.  Seems to cause no harm to ausearch
>> or audit2allow to add it as a field.  Comments?
> I think it's a great idea, but I'm worried that Steve is going to get
> grumpy because an AVC record is going to have a result= field which is
> similar, but not necessarily related to the res= field of a SYSCALL
> record.  Seems easily confused (although probably 9999 times out of
> 10000 they will be the same)
>
> So while I wholeheartedly think we should take the idea, I wonder if
> someone can dream up a name that isn't confusingly similar...
>
> I can't think of anything...
>
> -Eric
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-30 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAB9W1A3BxZ=U=+t4o3q+EomuxK256Ou1EAqyHXrLm59PB=p7kA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-04-30  2:59 ` [RFC][PATCH] selinux: Report result in avc messages Eric Paris
2014-04-30 12:59   ` Daniel J Walsh [this message]
2014-04-30 13:29     ` Steve Grubb
2014-04-30 13:34       ` Daniel J Walsh
2014-04-30 15:18         ` Stephen Smalley
2014-04-30 15:38           ` Stephen Smalley
2014-04-30 15:48             ` William Roberts
2014-04-30 16:01               ` Steve Grubb
2014-04-30 16:08                 ` Stephen Smalley
2014-04-30 16:20                   ` William Roberts
2014-05-01 19:09                   ` Paul Moore
2014-05-01 20:11                     ` Stephen Smalley
2014-05-02 19:47                       ` Paul Moore
2014-04-30 15:52             ` Eric Paris

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